Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: Conceptualising Knowledge Society: Critical Dimensions and Ideal Image
- 2 Critiquing and Contextualising Knowledge Society
- 3 Strategising for Knowledge Society in India: The Shifting Backdrops and Emerging Contexts
- 4 Education for Knowledge Society in India
- 5 Information and Communication Technologies for Knowledge Society
- 6 Indian Growth Story: Service and Knowledge Dynamics
- 7 Education, ICTs and Work: The Divergent Empirical Reality
- 8 Knowledge Society: Work, Workers and Work Relations
- 9 Knowledge Society: Culture, Continuity and Contradictions
- 10 Conclusion: Marginality, Identity, Fluidity and Beyond
- Bibliography
- Index
7 - Education, ICTs and Work: The Divergent Empirical Reality
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: Conceptualising Knowledge Society: Critical Dimensions and Ideal Image
- 2 Critiquing and Contextualising Knowledge Society
- 3 Strategising for Knowledge Society in India: The Shifting Backdrops and Emerging Contexts
- 4 Education for Knowledge Society in India
- 5 Information and Communication Technologies for Knowledge Society
- 6 Indian Growth Story: Service and Knowledge Dynamics
- 7 Education, ICTs and Work: The Divergent Empirical Reality
- 8 Knowledge Society: Work, Workers and Work Relations
- 9 Knowledge Society: Culture, Continuity and Contradictions
- 10 Conclusion: Marginality, Identity, Fluidity and Beyond
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Knowledge Society in the Making with Inequality in Access as Social Reality
The emergence of knowledge society as a global phenomenon in the contemporary world is augmented ideologically by the expansion of the political philosophy of neoliberalism, socially strengthened by the expansion of skill and education, technologically furthered by the penetration of ICTs and mass communication networks and economically enhanced by the emergence of knowledge workers and new avenues of employment as promoted by the neoliberal globalisation. The neoliberal states have initiated new and modified old institutional mechanisms paving the way for fast transition in the economy, educational arrangements, ICTs usage and work participation patterns and in the broad social and cultural edifice of society. The foundation of knowledge society is in the making in India and the potential of such making has been marked by the phenomenal increase in the rate of literacy; increase in the average age of retention of youth in the education system; enlargement of numerical strength of trained and educated manpower; expansion of educational arrangements at all levels; increasing use of knowledge and ICTs; phenomenal state support for the promotion of ICTs; ICT-enabled industries and its usage; emergence of knowledge work and knowledge workers as a distinct social category; increasing occupational mobility and diversification of economy and declining significance of agriculture, rising contribution of service sector in economy; growing significance of knowledge workers in the economic life of the state and society;[…]
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- Towards a Knowledge SocietyNew Identities in Emerging India, pp. 195 - 225Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014