The State and the Politics of Knowledge
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https://doi.org/10.11575/jet.v40i3.52556Abstract
When the veneer of the employability skills discourse is stripped away from career education policies, these neo-liberal initiatives focus on creating an ideologically compliant workforce for the unstable global labor market. In South Korea, conservative business lobby groups paint a decidedly bleak picture of the nation's readiness to meet global labor market changes, describing it as a "national crisis" to justify implementing career education: "The dominant group identified militant labor strikes, the shortage of manual labor, and the Korean people's supposedly irrational aspirations for college education and for mental labor as the main factors in weakening national competitiveness" (p. 150).
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2018-05-17
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