223 Citations
Education and Training for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
- Business
- 2020
Within the context of the 4th Industrial Revolution as an overall paradigm change, organization and work processes must switch together with automation following and real-time control. This applies…
Collective (re)imaginings of social mobility : insights from place-based, classed and gendered (im)mobility narratives
- Sociology
- 2019
This thesis explores how social class, place-attachment, and gender are interconnected within narratives of social (im)mobility, shaping the horizon of participants’ trajectories. Situated within a…
Going to University: The Influence of Higher Education on the Lives of Young South Africans
- Education
- 2018
This book contributes to broader debates about the significance and importance of higher education in a number of distinctive ways. First it is based on the narratives of students who started degrees…
School principals speaking back to widening participation policies in higher education
- Education
- 2017
ABSTRACT This paper examines school principal responses to the policy discourse of widening participation in higher education. As a critical analysis of how policy is produced, read and responded to…
The Academisation of Emerging Professions: Implications for Universities, Academics and Students
- Education
- 2014
Although Australian universities have delivered professional education alongside liberal education since their inception, the more recent introduction of emerging professions into universities'…
Constructive alginment approach for assessing essential cultural soft skills in the tourism sector through ICT
- Education
- 2019
The focus of this study was to investigate whether Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) may assist the acquisition and assessment of essential soft skills in tourism higher education.…
Educational technology: a presupposition of equality?
- Sociology
- 2014
The work of philosopher Jacques Rancière is used conceptually and methodologically to frame an exploration of the driving interests in educational technology policy and the sanctioning of particular…
Equity, markets and the politics of aspiration in Australian higher education
- Economics
- 2013
This paper provides a critical discussion of contemporary policy agendas to raise aspirations for university study among students from low socio-economic status (SES) backgrounds. It traces the…
Global reconstructions of vocational education and training
- Education
- 2012
Introduction: Global reconstructions of vocational education and training James Avis 1. State sector strategies: the new workforce development in the USA Richard D. Lakes 2. Liberal conservatism,…