Staying in a Certain State of Mind: Becoming and Being a Freelance Adult Educator in Singapore

Autor/inn/en	Rushbrook, Peter; Karmel, Annie; Bound, Helen
Titel	Staying in a Certain State of Mind: Becoming and Being a Freelance Adult Educator in Singapore
Quelle	In: Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 54 (2014) 3, S.415-435 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1443-1394
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Adult Education; Adult Educators; Job Skills; Facilitators (Individuals); Professional Identity; Interviews; Adult Vocational Education; Workplace Learning; Lifelong Learning; Singapore + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Adult education teacher; Adult education; Teacher; Teachers; Adult educator; Erwachsenenbildner; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Produktive Fertigkeit; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Life-long learning; Lebenslanges Lernen; Singapur
Abstract	Over recent years Singapore has developed a strong adult and vocational education system based on those of Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand. Its Continuing Education and Training (CET) sector makes use of competency-based training in the form of Workforce Skills Qualifications (WSQs) which are delivered in mainly small private providers by learning facilitators qualified through a range of WSQ-based training programs. Most facilitators are mature-age and second-career people drawn from diverse career backgrounds and employed on a casual and part-time rather than ongoing basis. They identify themselves as "freelancers" in the training market place and compete vigorously for the work opportunities available. In the paper we argue that continued workplace success is premised on a strong sense of professional identity and its management through a process of "shapeshifting" according to the diverse requirements of the adult education industry. We explore this idea through revisiting three of our projects examining Singaporean CET educators and ask of our data a new question: "How do individuals 'become' and 'be' Singaporean adult education freelancers?" We draw our insights from interviews with freelancers, Singapore's political and economic context and a range of literature drawn principally from a socio-cultural theoretical perspective. (As Provided).
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