Open AccessUnderstanding unskilled work as a condition for participation in adult education and training
Author(s) -
Sissel Kondrup
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the european journal for research on the education and learning of adults
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.277
H-Index - 8
ISSN - 2000-7426
DOI - 10.3384/rela.2000-7426.rela9064
Subject(s) - adult education , work (physics) , perception , training (meteorology) , position (finance) , psychology , sociology , pedagogy , social psychology , public relations , political science , mechanical engineering , physics , finance , neuroscience , meteorology , engineering , economics
This article discusses how to comprehend why people working in unskilled jobs are less likely than other groups to position themselves as educable subjects and engage in adult education and training. The article outlines how different research traditions examining recruitment to and participation in adult education and training reveal and explain distinctive participation patterns. These traditions are critically reviewed to identify how they provide specific understandings as well as certain blind spots. The review reveals a striking absence of research into unskilled work and thus a tendency to overlook how engagement in particular kinds of work condition people's perception of adult education and training. It is finally argued that future research must pay closer attention to people's specific work-life and examine how engagement in specific historical, social and material (changing) work practices condition their perception of adult education and training