Cultural Compromise? The fate of the eighth Mayer Key Competency
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Wyatt-Smith, Claire and Dooley, Karen Teresa. (1999). Cultural Compromise? The fate of the eighth Mayer Key Competency. Discourse : Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. 20(1), pp. 125 - 139. https://doi.org/10.1080/0159630990200108
Authors | Wyatt-Smith, Claire and Dooley, Karen Teresa |
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Abstract | [Extract] In recent decades, major re-structuring of work practices has occurred and continual, sometimes urgent, change has become an established feature of working life in Australia and in other industrialised economies (Kalantzis & Cope, 1994). Workers arc now expected to be multi-skilled, creative, adaptable, capable of autonomous decision making, and responsive to technological, organisational and market contingencies. Identification with negotiated purposes and workplace culture is also expected (Kalantzis & Cope, 1994; Bernstein, 1996). Accompanying the changes in work practices and the increasing emphasis on workplace culture as a mechanism of motivation has been 'a much publicised (and criticised) rhetoric about education as the key to economic recovery—the means to make Australia the clever country' (Wyatt-Smith & Burke, 1996, p. 43). Underpinning this rhetoric was the assumption of an unproblematic link between education and improved economic performance in conditions of intensifying global competition (Luke, 1992—93). A succession of Australian ministerial documents, government reports and education authority statements have taken up this rhetoric about education as an instrument of economic policy, insisting that educational reform is a key to increasing competitiveness and productivity in the international marketplace, particularly in the Asian region (e.g. Asian Studies Council, 1988; Garnaut, 1989; Ingleson, 1989). |
Year | 1999 |
Journal | Discourse : Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education |
Journal citation | 20 (1), pp. 125 - 139 |
Publisher | Routledge |
ISSN | 0159-6306 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/0159630990200108 |
Page range | 125 - 139 |
Research Group | Institute for Learning Sciences and Teacher Education (ILSTE) |
Publisher's version | File Access Level Controlled |
Place of publication | United Kingdom |
https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/item/86303/cultural-compromise-the-fate-of-the-eighth-mayer-key-competency
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