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Bhutani Vij, Asmita – Studies in Continuing Education, 2021
The education-based NGO sector in India is a large sector and it depends on activities of learning, training and motivation to sustain its underpaid and overworked workers. I articulate a theoretical perspective on the 'learning activity' in these workplaces using ideas of Engeström and Freire, I focus and problematise the discourse of empowerment…
Descriptors: Nongovernmental Organizations, Neoliberalism, Workplace Learning, Critical Theory
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Maitra, Saikat; Maitra, Srabani – Studies in Continuing Education, 2015
This paper examines employment-related training programmes offered by state funded agencies and multinational corporations in Toronto (Canada) and Kolkata (India). In recent years both cities have witnessed a rise in the service sector industries aligned with global regimes of flexible work and the consequent reinvention of a worker subject that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Workplace Learning, Training, Employees