Session Information
23 SES 03A, Reconstructing Education and Health as Neo-Liberal Human Service Work: Disturbing Borders of Work, Occupational Politics and Agency
Symposium
Time:
2008-09-10
14:00-15:30
Room:
B1 116
Chair:
Terri Seddon
Contribution
This paper draws together the main themes arising from our work in the book project, Disturbing Work: Approaching Agency as a basis for considering the way flexible capitalism is disturbing education as a social institution. The emerging neo-liberal institutional design, which approaches education as a human capital development program, problematises the b/orders, and segments, of the existing education workforce. The implications of this trend is illustrated with reference to the composition, character and capacity of the teaching workforce in Australia and the way it is being re-ordered as a consequence of lifelong learning reforms. This illustration provides a basis for drawing on our analysis of ‘disturbing work’ to consider what these developments might mean for an occupational politics of teaching.
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