Challenging Future Practice Possibilities

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-40078-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Reihe: Practice Futures

“What might the futures of practice be like?” is far from a straightforward question. Emphasising "the" before the word future, implies one future. But futures thinkers have identified a range of futures that people think about. In this book we reflect on possible, probable, and preferable futures in relation to practice and work. Readers are invited to consider how their own engagement in shaping possible futures will support ways of working that they deem preferable, even those they can hardly imagine. Challenging Future Practice Possibilities also examines influences that are maintaining the status quo and others that are pushing interest-driven change. Authors consider the major challenges that practice and practitioners face today such as wicked problems, fears for the future and complex demands and opportunities posed by the digital revolution. A number of examples of future-oriented work directions such as protean careers and artificial intelligence enhancing or even replacing human workforces, are considered along with concerns like the vulnerability of many work situations and workers. In some cases workers and employers alike are unprepared for these challenges, while others see adapting to these situations as yet another pathway of practice futures evolution.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Higgs, Joy

Cork, Steven

Horsfall, Debbie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Berufliche Bildung Berufs- und Studienberatung, Karriereplanung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Berufliche Bildung Wirtschaftspädagogik, Berufspädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgements

Part 1: Grappling with Practice Futures

1 Exploring Practice in Context

Joy Higgs

2 Thinking the Unthinkable: Challenges of Imagining and Engaging with Unimaginable Practice Futures

Steven Cork and Debbie Horsfall

3 Plausible Practice Futures

Steven Cork and Kristin Alford

4 The Impact of Practice on Wicked Problems and Unpredictable Futures

Peter Goodyear and Lina Markauskaite

5 The Changing Face of Work: Considering Business Models and the Employment Market

Paul Whybrow and Asheley Jones

Part 2: Practice and the Common Good

6 Re-claiming Social Purpose and Adding Values to the World around Us

Debbie Horsfall and Joy Higgs

7 Our Place in Society and the Environment: Opportunities and Responsibilities for Professional Practice Futures

Steven Cork

8 Practice Futures for Indigenous Agency: Our Gaps, Our Leaps

Sandy O’Sullivan

9 Changing Work Realities: Creating Socially and Environmentally Responsible Workplaces

Rosemary Leonard and Margot Cairnes

10 Towards Future Practice in Socio-political Contexts

Megan Conway and Joy Higgs

Part 3: Pursuing Practice Futures

11 The Place of Agency and Related Capacities in Future Practices

Franziska Trede and Joy Higgs

12 Employability and Career Development Learning through Social Media: Exploring the Potential of LinkedIn

Ruth Bridgstock

13 Re-imagining Practice Structures and Pathways: Starting to Realise Tomorrow’s Practices Today

Joy Higgs and Daniel Radovich

14 Freelancing, Entrepreneurship and Inherent Career Risk: An Exploration in the Creative Industries

Noel Maloney

15 Young People’s Hopes and Fears for the Future

Steven Cork and Jennifer Malbon

16 Facing Recruitment Challenges: Entering Workplace Practices

James Cloutman and Graham Jenkins

17 PhDs and Future Practice

Bernadine Van Gramberg

18 Educational Innovations: Preparing for Future Work

Asheley Jones

19 Otherness in Practice (in the Health Professions)

Janice Orrell and Julie Ash

20 Workplace Innovations and Practice Futures

Thomas Carey, Farhad Dastur and Iryna Karaush

Part 4: Reflections

21 Reflections about Work: What Might Be My Future Practice Roles?

Joy Higgs

Notes on Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Joy Higgs, AM, PhD, Emeritus Professor at Charles Sturt University, Adjunct Professor at the University of New South Wales and Director of the Education, Practice and Employability Network, Australia.

Steven Cork, Ph.D. (1981), University of New South Wales, Australia, is Adjunct Associate Professor at Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, Principal of Ecoinsights, and a Director of Australia21.

Debbie Horsfall, Ph.D. (1998), is Professor of Sociology at Western Sydney University and leader of the Caring at End of Life Research Team in the School of Social Sciences and Psychology.