How Non-Permanent Workers Learn and Develop

<p><em>How Non-Permanent Workers Learn and Develop</em> is an empirically based exploration of the challenges and opportunities non-permanent workers face in accessing quality work learning developing occupational identities and striving for sustainable working lives. Based on a study of 100 non-permanent workers in Singapore it offers a model to guide thinking about workers’ learning and development in terms of an ‘integrated practice’ of craft entrepreneurial and personal learning-to-learn skills. The book considers how strategies for continuing education and training can better fit with the realities of non-permanent work.</p><p>Through its use of case studies the book exams the significance of non-permanent work and its rise as a global phenomenon. It considers the reality of being a non-permanent worker and reactions to learning opportunities for these individuals. The book draws these aspects together to present a conceptual frame of ‘integrated practices’ challenging educational institutions and training providers to design and deliver learning and the enacted curriculum not as separate pieces of a puzzle but as an integrated whole.</p><p>With conclusions that have wider salience for public policy responses to the rise of non-permanent work this book will be of great interest to academics and researchers in the fields of adult education educational policy and lifelong learning.</p>