Learning for Livelihoods in the Global South

Foreword

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

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 REFORM OF POLICY AND PRACTICE

12. Financing Skills and Lifelong Learning in the Informal Sector

13. Exploring the intersectionality of green skills, innovation and livelihoods in the informal economy in Harare, Zimbabwe

14. Recognising Colombian waste pickers as public service providers and producers of knowledge

PART 5. CONCLUDING: MOVING FORWARD

15. Skill and livelihoods: some concluding ideas

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• Emprego e desemprego
• A educação de adultos, aprendizagem contínua
• Propósito moral e social da educação
• Indústria hospitalar
• Sociologia: trabalho e mão de obra
• Estudos regionais

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