In Pursuit of the Knowledge Worker: Educating for World Risk Society

Autor/inn/en	Uluorta, H.; Quill, L.
Titel	In Pursuit of the Knowledge Worker: Educating for World Risk Society
Quelle	In: International Studies in Sociology of Education, 19 (2009) 1, S.37-51 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0962-0214
Schlagwörter	Living Standards; Educational Practices; Education Work Relationship; Higher Education; Risk; Competition; Global Approach; Educational Change; Developed Nations + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lebensstandard; Bildungspraxis; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Risiko; Wettkampf; Globales Denken; Bildungsreform; Developed countries; Industriestaat; Industrieland
Abstract	Higher education within the USA is increasingly perceived to be in a state of crisis. This crisis exposes the USA and its citizens to risks that spell out disaster whether it is from a loss of national global competitiveness, a reduction in the standard of living and/or deep challenges to social cohesion. The suggested remedy to this condition is to transform current educational practices and institutions to better produce "knowledge workers" who in turn may harness the limitless potentials of a "global knowledge economy". While this vision of education seems compelling we argue that the transition to a "knowledge economy" is more fiction than fact. Instead we suggest that the "knowledge economy" is better understood as part of "risk society" where education does not reduce the anxiety associated with developed post-industrial economies, but serves to exasperate it. (Contains 2 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10