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transition to more just and sustainable development requires
radical change across a wide range of areas and particularly within
the nexus between learning and work. This book takes an expansive
view of vocational education and training that goes beyond the
narrow focus of much of the current literature and policy debate.
Drawing on case studies across rural and urban settings in Uganda
and South Africa, the book offers a new way of seeing this issue
through an exploration of the multiple ways in which people learn
to have better livelihoods. Crucially, it explores learning that
takes place informally online, within farmers' groups, and in
public and private educational institutions. Offering new insights
and ways of thinking about this field, the book draws out clear
implications for theory, policy and practice in Africa and beyond.
Despite the transition from apartheid to democracy, South Africa is
the most unequal country in the world. Its extremes of wealth and
poverty undermine intensifying struggles for a better life for all.
The wide-ranging essays in this sixth volume of the New South
African Review demonstrate how the consequences of inequality
extend throughout society and the political economy, crippling the
quest for social justice, polarising the politics, skewing economic
outcomes and bringing devastating environmental consequences in
their wake. Contributors survey the extent and consequences of
inequality across fields as diverse as education, disability,
agrarian reform, nuclear geography and small towns, and tackle some
of the most difficult social, political and economic issues. How
has the quest for greater equality affected progressive political
discourse? How has inequality reproduced itself, despite best
intentions in social policy, to the detriment of the poor and the
historically disadvantaged? How have shifts in mining and the
financialisation of the economy reshaped the contours of
inequality? How does inequality reach into the daily social life of
South Africans, and shape the way in which they interact? How does
the extent and shape of inequality in South Africa compare with
that of other major countries of the global South which themselves
are notorious for their extremes of wealth and poverty? South
African extremes of inequality reflect increasing inequality
globally, and The Crisis of Inequality will speak to all those -
general readers, policy makers, researchers and students - who are
demanding a more equal world.
This book assesses the impact and implementation of national
qualifications frameworks in sixteen different countries. It
presents two major lessons for policy makers thinking of
introducing a National Qualifications Framework (NQF). First, that
an NQF is only a way of framing existing provision; it cannot on
its own, lead to the acquisition of skills or knowledge. Second, as
an attempt to standardize learning- something that is only to a
limited extent standardizable, NQFs have disadvantages as well as
advantages. The research was funded by the International Labour
Organization (ILO) and the European Training Foundation (ETF) and,
partly as a result of the ILO/ETF Report, the Editors were asked by
the World Bank to help them in advising the government of India on
introducing a NQF for vocational qualifications. Building on the
findings of the report, the editors of this book presented an NQF
implementation strategy to the Government of India on behalf of the
World Bank. It laid out the steps and stages that would be involved
and took account of the earlier experiences of introducing an NQF.
Although this strategy was prepared specifically for the Government
of India, others who have read it felt it deserved wider
circulation. The report has therefore been included in this volume.
Since this research was undertaken, the number countries,
especially developing countries, implementing or introducing a NQF
has continued to increase. This book will be of interest to policy
makers and researchers. This book was originally published as a
special issue of the Journal of Education and Work.
Es gibt einen steigenden Bedarf an beruflich-wissenschaftlicher
Bildung in Wissenschaft, Arbeitsmarkt und Gesellschaft. Dennoch
verharren viele Akteure in Bezug auf die berufliche und
wissenschaftliche Bildung im traditionellen Saulendenken, starke
gesellschaftliche Krafte halten an ihrer institutionellen Trennung
im Bildungssystem fest. Der Band will den Diskurs uber das
Verhaltnis und die Integration von beruflicher und
wissenschaftlicher Bildung reflektieren und erweitern. In einer
Reihe von Beitragen namhafter Erziehungswissenschaftler*innen aus
dem In- und Ausland werden theoretische, konzeptionelle und
praktische Gestaltungsfragen fur eine Qualifizierung diskutiert,
die die Anschlussfahigkeit von wissenschaftlicher und beruflicher
Bildung innerhalb und zwischen den Studiengangen in eine
integrative Perspektive stellt.
In the face of the continuing national tragedy of the inequality,
poverty and unemployment which have triggered rising working-class
discontent around the country, the ANC announced a 'second phase'
of the 'national democratic revolution' to deal with the
challenges. Ironically, the ANC post-Mangaung has resolved to
preserve the core tenets of the minerals-energy-financial complex
that defined racial capitalism - while at the same time ratcheting
up the revolutionary rhetoric to keep the working class and
marginalised onside. If the 'first phase' was a tragedy of the
unmet expectations of the majority, is the 'second phase' likely to
be a farce? The chapters in this volume are written by experts in
their fields and address issues of politics, power and social
class; economy, ecology and labour; public policy and social
practice; and South Africa beyond its borders. They examine some of
these challenges, and indicate that they are as much about the
defective content of policies as their poor implementation. The
third volume of the New South African Review continues the series
by providing in-depth analyses of the key issues facing the country
today.
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