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Record Nr.

UNINA9910572190303321

Titolo

A glance at work : educational perspectives / / edited by Vanna Boffo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Firenze : , : Firenze University Press, , 2012

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (167 pages)

Collana

Strumenti per la didattica e la ricerca ; ; 129

Disciplina

370.72

Soggetti

Education - Research

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

INTRODUCTION. EDUCATIONAL GLANCES AT WORK / Vanna Boffo -- WORK AND PERSON: SENSE, CARE AND RELATIONSHIPS / Vanna Boffo -- WORK AND PERSON: PLACES OF LABOUR AS A DIVIDED TERRITORY / Pietro Causarano -- MIGRANT JOBS AND HUMAN CULTURES: TRANSFORMATION THROUGH A NEW FORMATION / Clara Silva -- MIGRANT JOBS AND HUMAN CULTURES: TANGIBLE AND INTANGIBLE KNOW-HOW / Giovanna Del Gobbo -- CHILDHOOD AND WORK: PROTECTION AND OBSCURATION / Emiliano Macinai -- YOUNG PEOPLE AND WORK: COMMODIFICATION AND PERCEPTION /Stefano Oliviero -- DIVERSE JOBS: ATYPICAL WORK AND FORMATION TO SUPPORT AN UNSTABLE BALANCE / Maria Rita Mancaniello -- THE AUTHORS -- NAMES INDEX.

Sommario/riassunto

The topics of work flexibility, precarious jobs, and the relationship between work, the market and production are subjects that are widely debated in the sociological, philosophical, economic and political spheres. Yet these topics are less touched on in the tradition of pedagogical research. The intention of this book is to build a seedbed for reflection on the central position assumed by work in the lives of every woman and man, inhabitants of a planet in which the transformation of work activities is imposing radical changes on lifestyles, community-building and societies. Work is not an abstract concept, but is incorporated into every human person who does it and into the relationships linking them to others. Man, his education and human formation provide the pivot around which to perform a pedagogical survey within the universe of "work", and inside the



relationship between the human condition and working/professional life. What sense does work acquire today when going to observe children, young people, adults or migrants? Namely, what sense does it assume when its pivotal viewpoint is shifted off-centre in time and space? The essays intend to spark agile but critical, synchronic and diachronic reflection which, stemming from contextual questions on the meaning of work and on change in the workplace, will proceed to investigate the subjects in their specific lives and existential conditions. Essays by: Vanna Boffo, Pietro Causarano, Giovanna Del Gobbo, Emiliano Macinai, Maria Rita Mancaniello, Stefano Oliviero and Clara Silva.