- Title
- Social ecosystem for skills research inclusivity, relationality and informality
- Creator
- Metelerkamp, Luke, Monk, David
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2023
- Type
- text
- Type
- book chapter
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/434871
- Identifier
- vital:73112
- Identifier
- ISBN 978-1529224634
- Identifier
- https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/transitioning-vocational-education-and-training-in-africa
- Description
- Eighty per cent of Africans work in the informal economy. In this chapter, we consider the highly informal, unregulated and often marginalized contexts that form the majority experience of living, working and learning. Situating the praxis of horizontal learning within these very normal contexts of informality demands renewed analysis into the questions of how horizontal learning is facilitated, by whom, with what resources, and why. Following on from Chapter 4, we develop our approach to social ecosystems further through two empirical case studies offering distinct lenses on to the informal sector. In Gulu, we consider the current dynamics of learning and inclusion among informal traders at a local market and in a set of food and clothing initiatives; in Alice, we reflect on an intentional effort on behalf of established, formal institutions to explore new approaches to teaching and learning through support of expansive informal learning in the context of food growing. While our focus across the book is on the range of labour markets and livelihood opportunities, it is appropriate to start our empirical chapters by focusing on the labour market of the majority.
- Format
- 22 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- Bristol University Press
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Metelerkamp, L. and Monk, D., 2023. Social ecosystem for skills research: inclusivity, relationality and informality. In Transitioning Vocational Education and Training in Africa (pp. 75-96). Bristol University Press
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