Cultural Compromise? The fate of the eighth Mayer Key Competency
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2931366 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Claire Wyatt‐smith (0000-0003-1190-9909, Griffith University), Karen Dooley (0000-0002-5826-3415, Griffith University) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 125-139 |
| Publication date | 1999-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Discourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0159-6306 • E-ISSN: 1469-3739 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0159630990200108 |
| OpenAlex | W1998422001 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 10 |
[Extract] In recent decades, major re-structuring of work practices has occurred and continual, sometimes urgent, change has become an established feature of working life in Australia and in other industrialised economies (Kalantzis & Cope, 1994). Workers arc now expected to be multi-skilled, creative, adaptable, capable of autonomous decision making, and responsive to technological, organisational and market contingencies. Identification with negotiated purposes and workplace culture is also expected (Kalantzis & Cope, 1994; Bernstein, 1996). Accompanying the changes in work practices and the increasing emphasis on workplace culture as a mechanism of motivation has been 'a much publicised (and criticised) rhetoric about education as the key to economic recovery—the means to make Australia the clever country' (Wyatt-Smith & Burke, 1996, p. 43). Underpinning this rhetoric was the assumption of an unproblematic link between education and improved economic performance in conditions of intensifying global competition (Luke, 1992—93). A succession of Australian ministerial documents, government reports and education authority statements have taken up this rhetoric about education as an instrument of economic policy, insisting that educational reform is a key to increasing competitiveness and productivity in the international marketplace, particularly in the Asian region (e.g. Asian Studies Council, 1988; Garnaut, 1989; Ingleson, 1989)
Compromise · Computer security · Political science · Computer Science · Education Systems and Policy · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Law · Literacy, Media, and Education · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.07 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1999 - 2000 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |