Persuasive discourses: learning and the production of working subjects in a post-industrial era
This chapter contributes to the debate about how the notion of a 'learning society' has been used and some of its ambiguities and contradictions. The theme of the chapter is that lifelong learning is a discourse aimed at producing employees for 'new local global worksites'. Using the example of Australia, the author investigates the idea that the discourses of lifelong learning, through their interrelationships with globalism and new managerialism, are deeply involved in the production of working subjects. However, learner/workers are often neglected in the discourses and although employers an ... Show more
Authors: Butler, Elaine
Published: London, England, Kogan Page, 1998
Resource type: Book chapter
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