دانلود کتاب Transitioning Vocational Education and Training in Africa: A Social Skills Ecosystem Perspective

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Front Cover\nSeries information\nTransitioning Vocational Education and Training in Africa: A Social Skills Ecosystem Perspective\nCopyright information\nTable of contents\nSeries Editor’s Preface\nList of Figures, Tables and Boxes\nList of Abbreviations\nAcknowledgements and Authorship\n1 Introducing VET Africa 4.0\n A new approach to vocational education and training\n Introducing the notion of skills ecosystems\n Introducing the cases\n eThekwini\n Hoima\n Alice\n Gulu\n Our contribution\n The book’s structure\n2 VET and Skills in Africa: A Historical Sociology\n Introduction\n A brief history of VET in Africa\n Precolonial skills development\n Colonial experiences\n African VET since independence\n VET Africa 1.0\n VET Africa 2.0\n VET Africa 3.0\n The state of contemporary African VET\n Towards a VET Africa 4.0\n Conclusion\n3 Water, Transport, Oil and Food: A Political–Economy–Ecology Lens on Changing Conceptions of Work, Learning and Skills Development in Africa\n Introduction\n Oil, transport, water and food: locating VET Africa 4.0\n Country climate risk profiles\n Political–economy–ecology\n Rereading the history of African VET\n Just transitions and emerging skills trajectories\n Skills development for just transitions within an expanded skills ecosystem approach\n Conclusion\n4 Towards an Expanded Notion of Skills Ecosystems\n Introduction\n Skills ‘ecosystems’: a construct in transition\n The importance of social ecosystems for skills\n Collaborative horizontalities\n Facilitating verticalities\n 45° politics and mediation\n Ecological time\n Applying a social ecosystems perspective\n ‘Facilitating verticalities’ in African VET ecosystems?\n Unpacking the vertical: South African cases\n Unpacking the vertical: Ugandan cases\n Top-down verticalities\n Identifying ‘collaborative horizontalities’ in complex dynamic multilayered VET contexts\n Possibilities for collaborative horizontalities\n VET learning systems and practices (evidence of mediation)\n VET learning systems: reflecting on ecological time\n A multiscalar, spatiotemporal notion of skills ecosystems\n Conclusion\n5 Social Ecosystem for Skills Research: Inclusivity, Relationality and Informality\n Introduction\n General context and background\n Informality, learning and the potential for innovation\n Case studies: two lenses on informality and inclusion\n Gulu\n Compounded exclusion: war, gender and disability\n Youth learning networks\n Backyard farming\n Alice\n Mapping learning networks\n Phases of network evolution\n Discussion\n Relational capability, relational agency and distributed expertise\n Gardening for change: facilitator skills for supporting richer horizontalities in the informal economy\n Unpacking horizontalities\n Facilitating mechanisms in horizontal learning in the informal economy\n Boundary crossing: why is it important and how does it happen?\n Conclusion\n6 Vocational Teachers as Mediators in Complex Ecosystems\n Vocational teachers in complex skills ecosystems\n Foregrounding vocational teachers in the skills ecosystem\n The ‘where’ and ‘what’ of vocational teaching: case observations\n Conventional institutional settings\n External interventions in the conventional system\n Vocational teaching embedded in work contexts\n Vocational teachers and collaborative horizontalities\n Discussion: Vocational teachers as mediators?\n Conclusion: An expanded notion of VET teachers\n7 Challenges in Transitioning Processes\n Introduction\n Reviewing the transitioning literature\n Lifecourse research\n Critical vocationalism\n Vignettes: Transition experiences\n Stories of transition\n Enabling and constraining factors\n Individual aspirations\n Improving transitions\n Towards a differentiated approach to understanding transition processes\n Conclusion\n8 The Role of the University as Mediator in a Skills Ecosystem Approach to VET\n Introduction\n Existing realities\n Key ingredients\n Main questions of this chapter\n Engaged research and the community-engaged university\n Alice: Experiences with the role of two universities\n Gulu: Experiences of a young university\n Examples of research activities in the VET Africa 4.0 project\n Discussion and insights gained\n Expanded ecosystem development via relational agency\n Innovation systems and social movement building, role of community actors and universities\n Community engagement in theory and practice\n Conclusion and agenda for the coming years\n9 Implications for VET Research, Policy and Practice\n The state of vocational education and training\n Adopting and expanding the social ecosystems for skills model\n Reflections on adopting a skills ecosystems approach\n Expanding the approach\n Some limitations to our approach\n Implications for VET policy and practice\n System thinking\n Rethinking VET’s purpose\n Addressing public provision\n Skills for the informal sector\n Knowledge, learning and teaching\n Rethinking private provision\n Universities as social ecosystem actors\n Towards a new language for thinking about VET policy and practice\nAfterword: Towards a More Just and Sustainable Research Practice\nReferences\nIndex\nBack Cover