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Vocational Education in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Education and Employment in a Post-Work Age

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Authors:
  1. James Avis

    1. SEPD, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK

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  • Analyses the concept of the fourth industrial revolution and its impact on vocational education and training

  • Imagines the impact of this revolution across European regions and low and middle income economies

  • Call for a politics based on non-reformist reforms

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: Vocational Education in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Education and Employment in a Post-Work Age

    • James Avis
    Pages 1-18

  3. Socio-Technical Imaginaries and the Fourth Industrial Revolution

    • James Avis
    Pages 19-43

  4. Robotisation, Artificial Intelligence, Employment and the Fourth Industrial Revolution

    • James Avis
    Pages 45-72

  5. Post-Work, Post-Capitalism and the Fourth Industrial Revolution

    • James Avis
    Pages 73-102

  6. Conclusion: Vocational Education in the Fourth Industrial Revolution—Education and Employment in a Post-Work Age

    • James Avis
    Pages 103-116

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 117-132
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About this book

This book examines the concept of the fourth industrial revolution and its potential impact on vocational education and training. Broadly located in a framework rooted in critical/radical theory, the book argues that the affordance of technologies surrounding the fourth industrial revolution are constrained by their location within a neoliberal, if not capitalist, logic. Thus, the impact of this revolution will be experienced differently across European regions as well as low and middle income economies. In order to break this impasse, this book calls for a politics based on non-reformist reforms, premised on an aspiration towards a socially just society that transcends capitalism. 

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“The book has many strengths. Above all, though a short book, it is incredibly rich, reflecting Avis’s breadth of scholarship about VET and work. … All in all, this is a book to be highly commended and welcomed. James Avis does important work for the field in problematizing some of the current policy nonsense of a critical VET for 4IR. Beyond this, however, he highlights the huge, indeed, existential questions that face VET whatever 4IR amounts to in substance.” (Simon McGrath, Journal of Vocational Education & Training, Vol. 74 (2), 2022)

Authors and Affiliations

  • SEPD, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK

    James Avis

About the author

James Avis is Professor of Post-Compulsory Education at the University of Derby and Professor Emeritus at the University of Huddersfield. His research interests include vocational education and training, the political economy of post-compulsory education, the labour process and education policy.

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