EDF3802

Work, Development and Identity

8 Credit Points -Semester 2 - Peninsula Campus - 2 hours per week

Objectives Upon successful completion of this subject, students should have an understanding of the concepts of `development', `identity', `citizenship' and `lifelong learning', especially as they as they arise in work contexts; be able to identify and describe the ways in which these concepts are related to each other and to contemporary forces of globalisation and technologisation; be able to explore the implications of these relationships for formal and informal learning and teaching in workplaces and communities and be able to use this knowledge when developing educational content in their area of expertise.

Synopsis Building on EDP2806 and EDP 2802, this subject will develop students' understanding of the impact of technologisation and globalisation on learning and teaching in work and community settings. It will advance theoretical frameworks with which to understand the origins and impact of radical developments in information technologies, and the associated social technologies of workplace organisation (including `Quality Management', `Reengineering' and related movements), on individual workplaces and the wider community. Drawing on specific accounts of work practice, it will focus on the ways in which identities (like `the worker/learner' and `the citizen' ) are constructed and reconstructed in changing workplaces and the role that education and training plays in this process. It will consider the ways in which these processes of identity formation are tied up with assumptions about individual and/or corporate responsibility for lifelong `development' . A significant focus of the subject will be on the ways in which new work practices, and new forms of work organisation, emphasise the learning of new forms of language in workplaces, and the implications of these changes for workplace development and identity formation. The subject will identify ways students might use this knowledge when developing educational content in their area of expertise.

Assessment Assignment one, based on students' learning logs compiled during the semester : (1500 words) 30%
Assignment two, based on class work and recommended readings : (3500 words) 70%

Recommended reading

Du Gay, Paul 1996 Consumption and Identity at Work Sage

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