Employability

Title: Employability
Creator: Griffiths, Tom G.; Robertson, Bill
Relation: Critical Reflections on the Language of Neoliberalism in Education: Dangerous Words and Discourses of Possibility p. 100-106
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003111580
Publisher: Routledge
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2021
Description: This chapter problematizes the common-sense idea that education's primary focus should be preparing people for work, and the associated ideas of education to enhance students' “employability.” We highlight the ways in which such a focus, grounded in a universalized, “developmentalist” logic, both narrows and limits the potentials of education. In particular, we argue that under the current phase of neoliberal capitalism, such terms operate to further shift responsibility for employment and unemployment onto individuals, and deflect attention from capitalism's incapacity to provide meaningful, secure work for all.
Subject: common-sense; education; employability; unemployment
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1437432
Identifier: uon:40348
Identifier: ISBN:9780367629571
Language: eng