The SAGE Handbook of Learning and Work – 2022

Abstract

The past decade has been a time of multiple societal crises and changes – the ongoing effects of 2008 economic crisis and policies of austerity, an accelerating climate emergency, the growth of digitised social media and innovations of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) and the impacts of the COVID pandemic. These challenges of the twenty-first century constitute the background to a growing body of research, theorisation and empirical studies on work and learning. This SAGE volume (2022), published every decade, presents an opportunity to reflect on changes to the context of work and learning, to identify conceptual challenges and to understand developments in practice. The volume functions as a reference work providing a leading and international resource for researchers, trainers and higher education, vocational education and training organisations, enterprises and professional associations. The Handbook is a large and diverse volume comprising four sections and totalling 40 chapters. Compiling such an intellectual resource is not an easy task. In response to SAGE and its marketing requirements, the editorial team developed an overview that attempted to capture the emerging trends to frame potential themes and key questions to be addressed. The following four sections constitute the main structure.