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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Deskilling"”.
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NVQ's in administration: the deskilling of secretaries
The role and functions performed by a secretary have changed considerably in the last decade. Such changes have evolved over time due to the changing industrial environment but perhaps more spectactularly because of computerised innovations. However, findings indicate that not all change has been …
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Information technology and deskilling of professional cataloguers with special reference to academic libraries in the Western Cape
An investigation was undertaken to establish whether it was possible to assume that information technology has had an influence of the skills levels in the jobs of cataloguers. The research was conducted in two parts: the literature survey and the empirical investigation. The survey of literature …
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Learning through Living: Freedom, Fear and Reading in the Classroom
… I discovered that I had participated in the deskilling process on three levels: as a learner, a classroom teacher and as a college professor. My transformation experience is presented throughout the pages that follow. Particular emphasis is placed on the effect of deskilling specifically …
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Choose Your Own Adventure? The Experiences of Occasional Teachers in the Reproduction or Transformation of Educational Systems
… agency or, alternatively, mechanisms for deskilling and the induction into institutionalized patterns and routines. This project looks at three elements that can cause deskilling or transformative change: (1) institutional experiences and social interaction with others in the OT role; (2) …
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The political economy of curriculum change in further education : the case of the Business and Technology Education Council
… in the labour market. Evidence relating to the deskilling of clerical work is examined and it is argued that such deskilling gives rise to a demand for transferable clerical 'skills'. Using evidence from archive material, it is argued that the underlying purpose of BTEC business studies courses …
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The impact of lean on the UK civil service and the trade union response
… that Civil Service work has been subject to deskilling. Using a 'skill in the job' conceptualisation, the research finds that although elements of job complexity are retained, the levels of job autonomy exercised by civil servants have been significantly reduced. This deskilling is linked to …
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Merchant Marine Deck Officer Agency Through Performative Acts
… agency in the form of an oppositional view to deskilling. These same performative acts are the value of the mariner's experiential technological knowledge within the ship's bridge technology framework.
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For Better Silk : Sericulture Reform in Sichuan, 1901-1945
… development did not simply cause the deskilling of rural producers by rendering their traditional skills and techniques obsolete, but also required them to be re-skilled in the new forms of knowledge and techniques.
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On farms and in laboratories: maize seed technologies and the unravelling of relational agroecological knowledge in South Africa
… work. Building on the concept of agricultural deskilling, it argues that modern seed technologies have contributed to ecological deskilling both on smallholder farms and within research and development, as seed technologies become increasingly disconnected from the environments in which they …
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Capturing the complexity of workplace knowledge – a case study of recognition of prior learning in an automated production environment
… that the automation of the workplace results in deskilling and a reduction in the knowledge requirements for occupations. Recognition of prior learning (RPL) aims to recognise candidates' prior knowledge and skills learned in non-formal and informal contexts, including the workplace. The concern …
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Economic structure and individuality: an essay on contradiction
… Countries since the mid-19th Century. Contra the deskilling perspective, the interpretation of that history proposed here is a contradictory one: a long term trend to reduced worktimes coupled with secular densification of tasks; a mechanical integration of the collective labourer combining with …
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Essays in the theory of economic growth
… the modern era, technical change was primarily deskilling, while in the modern era it is skill-biased.
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The work situation and class position of Brazilian engineers
… for its home country's executives. Although no deskilling process was found, engineers of both companies performed simple work, which required less engineering knowledge than they had learned from school. Engineers have little autonomy, authority and participation in decision making and are …
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An Approach for Conducting Stakeholder Interviews for a Novel Technology, as applied to the Locomotive Industry
… One expressed concern about the potential for deskilling if engineers become reliant on AR-HUD predictive information. A roadmap for further the analysis of the Survey results was developed to help form a better understanding of survey subjects, allowing for further refinement of the survey …
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Social workers' experience of work under changing administrative forms: an empirical and theoretical critique of Braverman
… an application of Braverman's thesis about the deskilling of labour to a social work context. Braverman claims a process of increasing managerial control over the labour process - a process of proletarianization is inevitable for workers in capitalist societies, whether in private or in state …
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Bobcat traps and other theories
… of neoliberal economics, production paradigms of deskilling, and emerging cultural discourses around identity politics. Employing narrative modes of memoir, autoethnography, historiography, and research nonfiction, while subtending those modes with theoretical and sociological framings, Bobcat …
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Noninvasive disease diagnostics using engineered synthetic urinary biomarkers
… of disease-associated protease activity, deskilling complex diagnostic procedures, and developing a pipeline for extending these tools to additional diseases. Drawing inspiration from existing diagnostics, we modified our protease nanosensors to release ligand-encoded reporters compatible …
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Worker's perception regarding the introduction of technology at Chiadzwa diamonds mines in Zimbabwe
… on workers such as alienation, specialisation, deskilling, redundancy, monotony and poor job satisfaction. However, to a les er extent it led to an increase of production, profits and safety at the workplace. Nevertheless, these positive effects such as increase in profits benefits management …
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Understanding the Neoliberalization of Education Through Spaces of Labour Autonomy
… has been the de-professionalization or deskilling of teachers. Organized labours response has been highly uneven geographically. Professional autonomy means a capacity and freedom of teachers to exercise their judgement in interpreting broad curriculum guidelines, into their day to day …
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