The limits of learning

Homelessness and Educating the Employable Self

Bibliographic Data

ID2931692
AuthorsJessica Gerrard (0000-0001-9011-6055, Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume36
Issue1
Pages69-80
Publication date2015-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDiscourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0159-6306 • E-ISSN: 1469-3739
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01596306.2013.831661
OpenAlexW2122595714
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited26

Across national contexts, in the attempt to develop and buttress ‘knowledge economies’, increasing pressure is placed on the need for flexible lifelong learners capable of constant knowledge and skills renewal. In this paper, I explore the impact of this broader sociopolitical context on the policy approach to poverty and, in particular, homelessness in Australia. Examining the ways in which education and learning for adults are increasingly at the centre of public policies, I trace the uses of education and learning in homelessness policy. Contextualising this within a consideration of recent shift towards a ‘skills agenda’ in the adult education sector, I argue that the purported power of education in homelessness policy must be understood in light of structural inequalities in the labour market and in the society more broadly

Disadvantaged · Economic growth · Economics · Inequality · Lifelong learning · Pedagogy · Political science · Poverty · Public policy · Sociology · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics

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