A Very Peculiar Practice? Promulgating Social Partnerships with Small Business--But What Have We Learnt from Research and Practice?

Autor/in	Plane, Karen
Titel	A Very Peculiar Practice? Promulgating Social Partnerships with Small Business--But What Have We Learnt from Research and Practice?
Quelle	In: Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 47 (2007) 1, S.25-45 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1443-1394
Schlagwörter	Qualitative Research; Industry; Ideology; Foreign Countries; Social Capital; Vocational Education; Educational Policy; Discourse Analysis; Partnerships in Education; School Business Relationship; Economics; Private Sector; Interviews; Government Role; Role of Education; Political Attitudes; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Qualitative Forschung; Industrie; Ideologie; Ausland; Sozialkapital; Ausbildung; Berufsbildung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Diskursanalyse; Hochschulpartnerschaft; Volkswirtschaftslehre; Privater Sektor; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Bildungsauftrag; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Australien
Abstract	The ideologies underpinning public/private partnerships (PPPs) have been much contested in theory, but what does promulgating a social partnership mean in practice? This qualitative research study has been "critiquing" a construct of "ecologies of learning" or "capacities of capital" for social partnerships between industry, vocational education and training (VET) and a regional community. This paper critiques one of these ecologies by exploring the discourses of social capital which present challenges for small business/community partnerships in practice. It argues that there is a need to question the impact of neoliberalism on social partnerships with VET and how the entities of industry: "fortress enterprise", the community: "fortress Australia", and governance: "terra publica" are positioned within this predominant economic rationalist discourse. It concludes that policies for "globalising neoliberalism" can be capacity reducing for promulgating social partnerships with VET at the local level. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10