Cultural Work and Higher Education [Paperback]

The cultural industries are an area of continued international debate. This edited volume brings together original contributions to examine the experiences and realities of working within a number of creative sectors and address how higher education can both enable students to pursue and critically examine work in the cultural industries.List of Contents Introduction: Cultural Work and Higher Education; Daniel Ashton and Caitriona Noonan PART I: THE DYNAMICS OF CULTURAL WORK 1. Making Workers: Higher Education and the Cultural Industries Workplace; Kate Oakley 2. Making Your Way: Empirical Evidence from a Survey of 3,500 Graduates; Emma Pollard PART II: CULTURAL AND CREATIVE INDUSTRIES AND THE CURRICULUM 3. Precariously Mobile: Tensions Between the Local and the Global in Higher Education Approaches to Cultural Work; Susan Luckman 4. No Longer Just Making the Tea: Media Work-Placements and Work-Based Learning in Higher Education; Richard Berger, Jon Wardle, and Marketa Zezulkova 5. Media Enterprise in Higher Education: A Laboratory for Learning; Annette Naudin PART III: IDENTITIES AND TRANSITIONS 6. Smashing Childlike Wonder? The Early Journey into Higher Education; Caitriona Noonan 7. Negotiating a Contemporary Creative Identity; Stephanie Taylor and Karen Littleton 8. Industry Professionals in Higher Education: Values, Identities and Cultural Work; Daniel Ashton PART IV: THE POLITICS OF ACCESS 9. Creative Networks and Social Capital; David Lee 10. The Cultural Industries in a Critical Multicultural Pedagogy; Anamik Saha 11. 'What do you need to make it as a woman in this industry? Balls!': Work Placements, Gender and the Cultural Industries; Kim Allen Afterword: Further and Future Directions for Cultural Work and Higher Education; Daniel Ashton and Caitriona Noonan

This is a valuable and timely book that addresses a clear gap in an expanding scholarly field. It makes a strong contribution to the growing literature, exploring what is at stake in the relatil£·