Creating and consolidating capacities among Australian show people
Edited book (chapter)
Chapter Title | Creating and consolidating capacities among Australian show people |
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Book Chapter Category | Edited book (chapter) |
ERA Publisher ID | 1417 |
Book Title | Constructing capacities: building capabilities through learning and engagement |
Authors | |
Author | Danaher, Patrick Alan |
Editors | Danaher, Patrick Alan, De George-Walker, Linda, Henderson, Robyn, Matthews, Karl J., Midgley, Warren, Noble, Karen, Tyler, Mark A. and Arden, Catherine H. |
Page Range | 160-177 |
Number of Pages | 18 |
Year | 2012 |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Place of Publication | Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom |
ISBN | 144384179X |
Web Address (URL) | http://www.c-s-p.org/flyers/Constructing-Capacities--Building-Capabilities-through-Learning-and-Engagement1-4438-4179-X.htm |
Abstract | Creating and consolidating a wide range of capacities are crucial to the continued sustainability of Australian show people’s aspirations and activities as a form of business, a type of community and a way of life. Drawing on a large-scale, multi-year corpus of qualitative, semi-structured interview data with several show families and the teachers of their children, this chapter presents a theoretically framed account of show people’s working capacities and their strategies for building those capacities based on the useful conceptual distinctions between formal and informal learning and between lifelong and lifewide learning. The chapter also highlights those capacities that have been facilitated by the show people’s previous and current experiences of formal educational provision and those that have been constrained by such provision. The author argues that a transformative approach to educating mobile workers like the Australian show people entails the construction and enhancement of capabilities simultaneously on the showgrounds and in the classroom. This argument has important implications for the ongoing theorisation of capacities and for understanding how and why capacities can be developed and/or destroyed in particular contexts. |
Keywords | Australia, capacity-building, fairground people, mobile learners, mobile workers, show people |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 390399. Education systems not elsewhere classified |
390499. Specialist studies in education not elsewhere classified | |
Public Notes | Chapter 9. c. Cambridge Scholars 2012. |
Byline Affiliations | Faculty of Education |
Central Queensland University | |
Griffith University | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q1wy0/creating-and-consolidating-capacities-among-australian-show-people
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