RETHINKING EDUCATION FOR EMPLOYMENT
İSTİHDAM İÇİN EĞİTİMİ YENİDEN DÜŞÜNMEK

Author : Yunus Emre ÖMÜR
Number of pages : 429-447

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to criticise education for employment understanding in the context of current job markets. Firstly human capital theory, screening and queue hypethesises are explained. Secondly, how education is transformed in neoliberal era and what kind of human capital investmen it has become in this era is discussed. New state of job markets in this era, which capitalism has become global, and which is also named as postfordist era, is compared to fordist era and discussed. In this era, unemployment rates have rised and jobs are commodified due to flexibility applications. This era, which is dominated by unsecurity and uncertainity, not only effects working life, but also societal life. Those people who works at unsecured jobs and has no certainity regarding future are named as precariat by some authors. Each i

Keywords

Education and Employment, Economics of Education, Unemployment, Unsecurity, Precariat

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