Changing Work, Changing Workers: Critical Perspectives on Language, Literacy, and SkillsGlynda A. Hull SUNY Press, 01/01/1997 - 392 páginas Changing Work, Changing Workers looks at U.S. factories and workplace education programs to see what is expected currently of workers. The studies reported in Hull's book draw their evidence from firsthand, sustained looks at workplaces and workplace education efforts. Many of the chapters represent long-term ethnographic or qualitative research. Others are fine-grained examinations of texts, curricula, or policy. Such perspectives result in portraits that honor the complex nature of work, people, and education. For example, one chapter examines the shop floor of a computer manufacturer in Silicon Valley and shows how well-intentioned organizational changes, such as the imposition of self-directed work teams, often go awry, particularly in multicultural workplaces. Another chapter provides the history of a federally funded literacy project designed for garment workers in New York City, documenting the struggles and achievements that accompanied this attempt to prepare immigrants for alternatives to work in a rapidly downsizing industry. Other settings and topics include a community college where minority women are prepared for the skilled trades; an auto-accessory plant with a "pay-for-knowledge" training program; a union-based literacy program designed for hospital workers; and the popular vocational curriculum called "applied communications." |
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Thinking a Curriculum Big Enough for Students | 214 |
If Job Training is the Answer What is the Question? | 273 |
List of Contributors | 383 |
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Literacy: An Introduction to the Ecology of Written Language David Barton Pré-visualização indisponível - 2007 |
Reading Work: Literacies in the New Workplace Mary Ellen Belfiore Pré-visualização indisponível - 2004 |