There is much scepticism about the concept of lifelong learning within both the educational
literature and the literature on work. Certainly, many work arrangements discourage …

This article surveys the potential impact of skill on productivity. It opens with a review of the
utility of productivity as a measure of systemic economic performance, and then goes on to …

This publication documents recent developments in the Australian labour market and the
organisation of work. It focuses specifically on changes in working life and an assessment of …

The links between vocational qualifications and occupational destinations are weak in many
Anglophone countries, even though the explicit purpose of vocational qualifications is to …

This article sets out reasons for arguing that creativity is not garnish to the roast of industry or
of education—ie the reasoning behind Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi's insistence that creativity is …

Skill ecosystems are defined as regional or sectoral social formations in which human
capability is developed and deployed for productive purposes (Finegold 1999). Their basic …

This chapter provides a brief outline of selected contributions to the diverse literature on
workplace learning from the last thirty years or so. It then examines a series of pertinent …

The problem of skills shortages is regularly highlighted in the media with comments from
governments, employers and unions and shortages are one of the issues that public training …

This article argues that there is a need to move beyond narrow ways of thinking about
training to incorporate broader notions of 'workforce development'and 'skill ecosystems'. A …

The subjectivity of workers, articulated in terms of the personal attributes required in ongoing
conditions of economic change, has been at the forefront of current discussions of generic …