Education Policy, Digital Disruption and the Future of Work Framing
This book examines the possibilities, practices and consequences of digital disruption and networked economies in education policy. As traditional notions of learning and labour are abstracted by networked technologies, young people are exposed to new for
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Shane B. Duggan
Education Policy, Digital Disruption and the Future of Work
Shane B. Duggan
Education Policy, Digital Disruption and the Future of Work Framing Young People’s Futures in the Present
Shane B. Duggan RMIT University Melbourne, VIC, Australia
ISBN 978-3-030-30674-8 ISBN 978-3-030-30675-5 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30675-5 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This Palgrave Pivot imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG. The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Preface
This book is about how young people’s lives are understood within the context of the rise of networked technologies in an increasing number of aspects of learning, living, and labouring. It explores the formal and informal policy mechanisms through which decisions about the impact of networked technologies are made, and their effects on how young people access, and are expected to interact with education and work. It is framed by three questions: first, what kinds of futures are being imagined and promoted in conversations about young people; second, what are the intended and unintended consequences of these framings; and finally, which young people are included and excluded in conversations about the future of living, learning, and labouring? Examining the intersection of digital disruption and education policy with young people’s lives involves bringing together of three sets of problems that organise this book: futurity, future-making and the problem of ‘youth’; understanding education policy as a form of future-making; and the collapsing of labour, learning, and life through the pursuit of technical solutions to complex policy problems. As this book demonstrates, conversations about young people
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