This study-unit will discuss employability, education, and training in a context of economic (management, wages, commodification, etc.), political (state and bureaucracy, class consciousness, etc.) and cultural (social reproduction, hegemony, etc.) relations. Within a historical timeline that departs from the post-war period to the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, attention will be given to the labour market and agendas of worker formation, and related aspects. The European Union and its master narratives and initiatives will be critically analyzed, with reference to impacts on member-states (welfare-to-workfare) and the training of workers (skills agendas, VET, etc).
Main Reading List
Heikkinen, A. (2006) Manufacturing the European in education and training. In M. Kuhn, & R. S. Sultana (Eds.). Homo sapiens Europaeus? Creating the European learning citizen (pp. 105-130). New York: Peter Lang.
Jessop, B. (Ed.) (2003). Postfordism and the State. In A. Amin (Ed.) Postfordism. A reader (pp. 251-279), Oxford UK: Blackwell.
Vella, M. (2012) Forgetting Industry: The scarce and selective visibility of Malta鈥檚 industrial experience in the field of vision of Maltese sociology. In J. Chircop (Ed.), Revisiting labour history (pp. 175-254), Malta: Horizons.
Supplementary Reading List
Jessop, B. (2016). The State: Past, present, future. Cambridge, UK: Polity.
Kuhn, M. (2007). Inside global learning societies 鈥� the war of ideas of the good world in the global battle of cultures. In M. Kuhn (Ed.). New society models for a new millennium: The learning society in Europe and beyond (pp. 11-44). New York: Peter Lang.
Noble, D.F. (2002) Technology and the Commodification of Higher Education. In Monthly Review. (Open access: )
Piore, M. J., & Sabel, C. F. (1984). The second industrial divide: Possibilities for prosperity. New York: Basic Books.
Please check your eligibility to join this short course and time-tabling details with the Faculty of Education. The short course will only be delivered subject to a minimum number of applications being received.
This study-unit aims to to provide students with knowledge, understanding and skills required to:
Locate the relevance of critical concepts and theories tackling commodification, social reproduction, hegemony, class consciousness to recent past (post-war) and concurrent developments related to employability, education and training;
Critically engage with master narratives implied in employability education and training policies (EU and national); and
Critically engage with employability, education, and training initiatives in post-war, EU and concurrent (globalised, digitised, COVID-19-impacted) contexts.
Learning Outcomes: Knowledge and Understanding
By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to:
Critically discuss relevant theories and concepts related to employability, education, and training;
Identify impacts of master narratives and initiatives on specified contexts, e.g., EU member-states; and
Discuss case studies of education and training initiatives with reference to economic, political and cultural dynamics at play.
Learning Outcomes: Skills
By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to:
Analyze economic, political and cultural dynamics affecting / intersecting with employability, education and training;
Evaluate concrete developments and specific events within the historical time frame set for the study-unit; and
Evaluate specified education and training programmes with reference to the kind of employability, education and training outcomes targeted and achieved.
Non EU Applicants:
EUR260
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