Michael A. Peters, Petar Jandrić, Alexander J. Means, editors.
Singapore :
Springer,
[2019]
1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Intro; Preface; Contents; Editors and Contributors; 1 Introduction: Technological Unemployment and the Future of Work; Introduction; Futures of Work and Education; Speculative Responses to Automation; Overview of the Volume; Part I: The Postdigital Fragmentation of Education and Work; Part II: What Can Places of Learning Really Do About the Future of Work?; Part III: Education in a Workless Society; Education and Technological Unemployment; References; The Postdigital Fragmentation of Education and Work; 2 'Intelligent Capitalism' and the Disappearance of Labour: Whitherto Education?
Being Human: Education for Long-Term Employability, Sustainability, and DemocracyRepacking the Valise: Teaching for Robot-Proofing and Sustainability; Conceptual and Social Engagement in Sustainable Economics; Conclusions on Robot-Proofing Education-And Saving the World; References; 6 Is Entrepreneurial Education the Solution to the Automation Revolution?; Introduction; Entrepreneurial Education Is not the Solution; Entrepreneurial Education Is the Problem; Conclusion; References; 7 Technological Unemployment and Psychological Well-being-Curse or Benefit?; A Future Without Work?
Introduction: The End of Labour?The Sociology of Labour; The Advent of Intelligent Systems; Gorz and Steigler; References; 3 The Lack of Work and the Contemporary University; The Lack of Work; The Outside as a Temporal Phenomena; Work in the University; Social Machines, Lack and the Investment of Desire; The Lack of Universities; Symmetrical/Repeated Precarity; Conclusion; References; 4 On Autonomy and the Technological Abolition of Academic Labour; Introduction; Capital and the University; Capital and Academic Labour; The Living Death of Academic Competition
The Benefits of WorkWork and Well-being; The Costs of Unemployment; Retirement; Maintaining Psychological Well-being; Positive Experiences; Structured Time and Engaging Tasks; Social Contact; Goals, Meaning and Purpose; A Traditional Happiness Formula; Technology as a Well-being Resource; Education-Challenge and Opportunity; Conclusion; References; 8 Technological Unemployment as a Test of the Added Value of Being Human; Classical Political Economy's Challenge to the Value of Humanity; Are Humans an Ontologically Endangered Species? Diagnosing the Dreyfusards
The Struggle Against Academic LabourFor Autonomy; References; 5 Transdisciplinary Engagement with Enforced Dependency: A Platform for Higher Education to Address Crises in Employment, Sustainability, and Democracy in Technological Society; Same Valise, Different Handles: The Jobs Crisis, the Sustainability Crisis, and the Crisis of Democracy; Enforced Dependency: A Thematic Thread in Converging Crises of Our Time; The Jobs Crisis: Technological Displacement of Labor and the Coming Economic Crisis; The Sustainability Crisis in Environment and Society; The Democracy Crisis
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This book examines the challenge of accelerating automation, and argues that countering and adapting to this challenge requires new methodological, philosophical, scientific, sociological, economic, ethical, and political perspectives that fundamentally rethink the categories of work and education. What is required is political will and social vision to respond to the question: What is the role of education in a digital age characterized by potential mass technological unemployment? Today's technologies are beginning to cost more jobs than they create - and this trend will continue. There have been many proposed solutions to this problem, and they invariably involve an educational vision. Yet, in a world that simply doesn't offer enough work for everyone, education is clearly not a panacea for technological unemployment. This collection presents responses to this question from a wide spectrum of disciplines, including but not limited to education studies, philosophy, history, politics, sociology, psychology, and economics.