Meeting Basic Learning Needs in the Informal Sector: Integrating Education and Training for Decent Work, Empowerment and Citizenship (Technical and Vocational ... Training: Issues
Год выпуска: 2005 Издательство: Страниц: 272 ISBN: 1402034261
Описание
"This anthology brings together basic facts and features about basic learning needs and skills of people working and living in the informal economy and presents case studies from different countries examining educational and training strategies for meetinthese learning needs. It portrays the grave problems facing educational and training systems vis-A?-vis informal sector workers, even as they look at holistic solutions that take into account principles of lifelong learning and innovations in informal, noformal and formal adult learning, and show a growing awareness that education is a human right of fundamental significance to promoting decent work and humane living conditions. The size, diversity, and the strength and sheer tenacity of workers and ownerin the informal sector as well as the stress on globalisation and technological changes have combined to bring about a reappraisal of the links between education and training and the informal labour market. The book looks at the...