Boundaried selves and resistance in learning and work: Part II
This symposium draws inspiration from a transnational research project (Seddon, Henriksson and Niemeyer, 2009) investigating the transformation of occupational boundaries in non-formal educational contexts. A key concern in their study is to understand how boundary work can open up space for agency in ways that may provoke resistance, create new delineations of insiders and outsiders, and enable the fabrication of collectivities. These are shown to be of vital significance in often-hidden issues of social justice in learning and work.
Some of the papers in this symposium focus on the same territory in discussing the transformation of occupational boundaries in youth work and career guidance. Others expand beyond the bounds of Seddon et al
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