Deschooling L'earning Young Adults and the New Spirit of Capitalism [Hardcover]

This book explores reforms to young adults' schooling that mobilise capital friendly learning-and-earning (l'earning) webs. It argues that deschooling l'earning builds young adults' commitment to modern modes of capital accumulation, gives insights into how they can secure their future, and reassures them that this can serve the common good.1. Classrooms Need Not Interfere with L'earning 2. Disenchantment with Classroom-Centric Schooling 3. Brokering Capital Friendly L'earning Webs 4. Networking Policy for Deschooling L'earning 5. Networking L'earning Webs is Not So Radical 6. Deschooling Network Leadership 7. Deschooling, Democracy and Accountability 8. Tests of Government Accountability 9. Concepts and Implications for Deschooling

The promise of Singh and Harreveld is that in breaking down structural barriers in learning, and placing student agency right at the centre of our thinking, a new kind of democratised economy can emerge an economy in which both private good and public good will advance, without the perpetual conflict between them which seems inescapable in the world we presently inhabit. Deschooling L'earning is an original, forward thinking and highly stimulating book, at one and the same time both radically mainstream and deeply subversive. - Simon Marginson, Professor of International Higher Education, Institute of Education, University of London, UK

This book brings the long awaited notion of deschooling learning and earning to the forefront of young adults' life/work transitions. Its innovative analysis of vocationally oriented learning talks to the diverse and intersecting issues of organisations seeking to recognise individual pathways and achievements. - Lori Hocking, Chief Executive Officer, VETnetwork, Australia

This research by Singh and Harreveld crosses the disciplines of education and sociology to examine the emerging and intersecting trajectories of schooling, leadership and workplace learnil)