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This chapter will argue that researchers and policy-makers on learning and work issues have been looking through the telescope backwards, and focusing narrowly on changes to formal education and training rather than looking at more pertinent larger problems of work reform.
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All of the findings discussed in this chapter are documented in detail on the research network website (www.wallnetwork.ca) as well as in Livingstone (2007, 2009, 2010) and Livingstone and Raykov (2010).
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For discussion of these economic class distinctions, see Livingstone (2009).
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See Livingstone (2009) for discussion of various dimensions of education–job matching and an extensive review of prior survey findings.
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Low literacy remains a serious problem for a small minority, but to claim that illiteracy is a major problem in relation to job requirements is now a fallacy of composition error of logic.
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Livingstone, D.W. (2012). Lifelong Learning and Life-Wide Work in Precarious Times: Reversing Policy-Making Optics. In: Aspin, D., Chapman, J., Evans, K., Bagnall, R. (eds) Second International Handbook of Lifelong Learning. Springer International Handbooks of Education, vol 26. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2360-3_18
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