Sustaining Employability Through Work-life Learning

Part One: Worklife learning and employability.- Chapter 1. Adults' worklife learning.- Chapter 2. Policies and practices for sustaining employability through worklife learning.- Part Two: Elaborating and investigating worklife learning.- Chapter 3: The imperatives of and for worklife learning (a review).- Chapter 4. Investigating learning for employability: Method and procedures.- Part Three: Orientation and perspectives of understanding and elaborating worklife learning.- Chapter 5. Employability and work life history.- Chapter 6. Literate practices in worklife histories, transitions and learning - Laurent Filliettaz.- Chapter 7. Learning and development across worklife transitions.- Chapter 8. Indigenous Australian peoples and work: Examining work-life learning histories of Indigenous Australian workers - Debbie Bargallie.- Chapter 9. Learning across working life: a product of 'personal curriculum.- Chapter 10. Negotiation and work-life transitions.- Chapter 11. Contributions of tertiary education.- Chapter 12. Worklife transitions and learning across working life: An Australian survey.- Part Four: Consolidations and differentiations.- Chapter 13. Consolidations and differentiations.- Chapter 14. Worklife learning: conceptual advances and expanding explanatory bases.

Dr Stephen Billett is Professor of Adult and Vocational Education at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. After a career in clothing manufacturing, he became a vocational educator, teacher educator, professional educator and held a policy role in Queensland. Since 1992, at Griffith University, he has researched learning through and for work and published widely in fields of learning for occupations, vocational education, workplace learning, work, higher education and conceptual accounts of learning for occupational purposes. He has been Fulbright scholar (1999), National Teaching Fellow (2009-11), ARC Future Fellow (2011-16) recipient of honorary doctorates from Jyvaskala University, Finland (2013) and University of Geneva (2020), elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia (2015), research fellow at Oxford University (2019-22), and adjunct professor at University of Stavanger, Norway (2019-23) and University Vast, Sweden (2019-). His current research projects are on: the standing of vocational education, integration of work experiences to promote university students' employability, resilience in healthcare workers, worklife learning in an era of change, continuing education and training in Singapore and re-imaging rural general practice after CoVid19. He is the founding and editor in chief of the journal Vocations and Learning: Studies in Professional and vocational education, and the Professional and practice-based learning book series for Springer.
Laurent Filliettaz is a full professor in Adult Education, Language and Work at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland. His expertise includes literacy issues in workplace contexts, multimodal interaction analysis in connection to learning and training practices in vocational education and training. He received his Ph.D. in linguistics in 2000 and has conducted numerous research projects over the years in areas such as pragmatics,