Challenging future practice possibilities / edited by Joy Higgs, Steven Cork and Debbie Horsfall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Higgs, Joy, editor.

Cork, Steven, editor.

Horsfall, Debbie, editor.

Series:

Practice Futures 1.

Practice futures, 2665-9263 ; volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Employment forecasting.

Labor market.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

Summary:

“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.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright page

Preface

Acknowledgements

Grappling with Practice Futures

Exploring Practice in Context / Joy Higgs

Thinking the Unthinkable / Steven Cork and Debbie Horsfall

Plausible Practice Futures / Steven Cork and Kristin Alford

The Impact of Practice on Wicked Problems and Unpredictable Futures / Peter Goodyear and Lina Markauskaite

The Changing Face of Work / Paul Whybrow and Asheley Jones

Practice and the Common Good

Re-claiming Social Purpose and Adding Values to the World around Us / Debbie Horsfall and Joy Higgs

Our Place in Society and the Environment / Steven Cork

Practice Futures for Indigenous Agency / Sandy O’Sullivan

Changing Work Realities / Rosemary Leonard and Margot Cairnes

Towards Future Practice in Socio-political Contexts / Megan Conway and Joy Higgs

Pursuing Practice Futures

The Place of Agency and Related Capacities in Future Practices / Franziska Trede and Joy Higgs

Employability and Career Development Learning through Social Media / Ruth Bridgstock

Re-imagining Practice Structures and Pathways / Joy Higgs and Daniel Radovich

Freelancing, Entrepreneurship and Inherent Career Risk / Noel Maloney

Young People’s Hopes and Fears for the Future / Steven Cork and Jennifer Malbon

Facing Recruitment Challenges / James Cloutman and Graham Jenkins

PhDs and Future Practice / Bernadine Van Gramberg

Educational Innovations / Asheley Jones

Otherness in Practice (in the Health Professions) / Janice Orrell and Julie Ash

Workplace Innovations and Practice Futures / Thomas Carey , Farhad Dastur and Iryna Karaush

Reflections

Reflections about Work / Joy Higgs

Back Matter

Notes on Contributors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

90-04-40079-6

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004400795 DOI