Learning for Livelihoods in the Global South: Theoretical and Methodological Lenses on Skills and the Informal Sector [Hardcover]

Foreword

1.?Skills, the informal sector and global south youth: theory and methods to break the silence

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PART 1. THEORISING: RETHINKING THE PURPOSE OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING

2. A relational capabilitarian approach for wellbeing livelihoods: Reframing and making alternative education, skills and work for young people

3. Subsumption, Alienation, and Questions of Meaning in Informal Sector Skills Training

4.?Supporting youth livelihoods in an informal sub-field in the global south

PART 2. CONCEPTUALISING: CONCEPTUAL TOOLS FOR UNDERSTANDING INFORMAL SECTOR SKILL ACQUISITION IN PRACTICE

5. Shifting informal geographies and the hustle for a better future

6. A typology of informal sector workers  heterogeneity and the complexity of skills development responses

7. The potential role of ICT in facilitating learning for livelihoods among informal apprentices in the automotive trade in Ghana

8. Highly educated migrants in platform-mediated food delivery work in the Netherlands: The absent presence of skills and its social effects?

PART 3. CRITIQUING: UNDERSTANDING CONSTRAINTS AND WEAKNESSES IN DOMINANT APPROACHES

9. Exploring valuable knowledge, skills and attitudes: Perceptions of young people in an informal settlement in Pietermaritzburg

10. Critiquing the concept of 'self-reliance' in informal sector training: A case study of Afghan refugee women in India

11. Gendering decent work: Rethinking the connections between informality, TVET and gender through the Decent Work agenda in Sierra Leone and Cameroon

PART 4. ADVOCATING: TOWARDS REFOl$