Overview: Education and Training in the Informal Sector

This section is based on selected contributions to the theme of learning and work. It deals with using work as a means of gaining insights into learning, education and training and pedagogical processes in different cultural and ideological contexts and countries. Two contexts are important. On the one hand, the chapters point to the effects of certain economic trends, such as the increasing importance of knowledge for the economy. The other can be said to be contexts characterized by poverty, precarious work conditions, informal economic activity and rampant unemployment, coupled with social inequalities and exclusion.