Educating for work in the time of COVID-19: Moving beyond simplistic ideas of supply and demand. Southern African Review of Education.

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dc.article.end-page79en_ZA
dc.article.start-page62en_ZA
dc.contributor.authorAllais, S.
dc.contributor.authorMarock, C. C.
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-17T13:44:17Z
dc.date.available2022-03-17T13:44:17Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractThis article describes how the Covid-19 pandemic has been particularly negative for skill formation in South Africa but, at same time, there are high expectations for the technical and vocational education and training system to support economic recovery and individual livelihoods. We argue that many policy recommendations for how education can meet these expectations are trapped in a narrow and mechanistic notion of supply and demand. The knowledge and skills required to do work are not developed somewhere outside of the economy, and then ‘supplied’ to meet labour market ‘demand.’ Skill formation is embedded in a range of different economic, social, and political arrangements and systems. Policy notions of ‘supply and demand’ of skills also underestimate how the ability of education to prepare for work is shaped by the ways in which work is organised. We argue that both researchers and policymakers need to think about vocational skills development programmes within industry sector master plans that drive economic recovery. We provide ideas of how policymakers can think about education and work more holistically, and argue that the key move is away from market-based regulatory models and towards models focused on building institutional capacity.en_ZA
dc.description.librarianMS2022en_ZA
dc.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationAllais, S., & Marock, C. (2020). Educating for work in the time of COVID-19: Moving beyond simplistic ideas of supply and demand. Southern African Review of Education, 26(1), 62 - 79.en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/32816
dc.journal.issue1en_ZA
dc.journal.linkhttps://hdl.handle.net/10520/ejc-sare-v26-n1-a5en_ZA
dc.journal.titleSouthern African Review of Educationen_ZA
dc.journal.volume26en_ZA
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.rightsCopyright © 2020, South African Comparative and History of Education Society (SACHES):All rights reserveden_ZA
dc.schoolWits School of Educationen_ZA
dc.titleEducating for work in the time of COVID-19: Moving beyond simplistic ideas of supply and demand. Southern African Review of Education.en_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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