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On the Problem of Foundation Skills and the Futures of Work

On the Problem of Foundation Skills and the Futures of Work

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Series: Global Education in the 21st Century, Book 13

General Education

ISBN10: 9004724443
ISBN13: 9789004724440
Publisher: Brill
Published: Mar 27 2025
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.59 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.25
Language: English
This book provides an analysis of how global capitalism, digital disruption, and new worlds of work have reshaped ideas about language, literacy and numeracy (foundation) skills in a neoliberal foundation skills apparatus in Australia since the 1980s.

The book uses Michel Foucault's genealogical approach to producing critical 'histories of our present'. From this perspective it examines how these disruptions have transformed what was once a voluntary, not-for-profit community 'movement' of education for migrants and marginalised people into a sophisticated government, community, and for-profit training and skills sector which imagines foundation skills learners as choice making consumers.

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