{"product_id":"on-the-problem-of-foundation-skills-and-the-futures-of-work-paperback","title":"On the Problem of Foundation Skills and the Futures of Work - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGarry Argent\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003ePeter Kelly\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book provides an analysis of how global capitalism, digital disruption, and new worlds of work have reshaped ideas about language, literacy and numeracy (foundation) skills in a neoliberal foundation skills apparatus in Australia since the 1980s.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The book uses Michel Foucault's genealogical approach to producing critical 'histories of our present'. From this perspective it examines how these disruptions have transformed what was once a voluntary, not-for-profit community 'movement' of education for migrants and marginalised people into a sophisticated government, community, and for-profit training and skills sector which imagines foundation skills learners as choice making consumers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGarry Argent\u003c\/b\u003e is Lecturer in the School of Education at Deakin University. His research focuses on the foundation skills of adults, vocational education and applied learning in schools.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePeter Kelly\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Education in the School of Education at Deakin University. His research focuses on young people's education, employment and well-being in times of crisis at the convergence of the sixth mass extinction and the Fourth Industrial Revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 250\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.59 x 9.25 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 27, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44204197281927,"sku":"9789004724440","price":97.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/TVYJDfpPgJ9789004724440.webp?v=1773582618","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/on-the-problem-of-foundation-skills-and-the-futures-of-work-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}