Module: HR & Training in a Globalised World

Latest Module Specifications

Current Academic Year 2025 - 2026

Module Title	HR & Training in a Globalised World
Module Code	EDU1064 (ITS: ES315)
Faculty	DCU Institute of Education	School	Policy & Professional Practice
NFQ level	8	Credit Rating	5

Description

The module explores and critiques a range of policies and conceptual frameworks concerning work and community based learning in both industry and community education and training settings in the globalized context. The module draws on the international literature to consider the limits and possibilities of further education.

Learning Outcomes

1. Identify human capital and globalisation conceptual frameworks for the analysis of current and future forms of work and of community-based organisations
2. Describe the strategic context of current and future work and community-based learning environments with regard to globalisation.
3. Develop approaches to integrating solutions emerging from analysis and synthesis into their own further education, practice and learning environments
4. Understand the goals and modus operandi of Human Resource Management and its link with globalised contexts and Human Capital Theory
5. Build understanding of the limits and possibilities in own learning trajectory, both formal and informal.

*Type*	*Hours*	*Description*
Workload	Full time hours per semester
Lecture	12	lecture presentation
Seminars	12	In-Class reflection and debate
Assignment Completion	32	No Description
Independent Study	69	further research and reading
Total Workload: 125

Section Breakdown
CRN	10534	Part of Term	Semester 1
Coursework	100%	Examination Weight	0%
Grade Scale	40PASS	Pass Both Elements	N
Resit Category	RC1	Best Mark	N
Module Co-ordinator	Jane O'Kelly	Module Teacher	Justin Rami

Type	Description	% of total	Assessment Date
Assessment Breakdown
Essay	n/a	100%	Week 1

Reassessment Requirement Type
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories; RC1: A resit is available for both^* components of the module. RC2: No resit is available for a 100% coursework module. RC3: No resit is available for the coursework component where there is a coursework and summative examination element. ^* ‘Both’ is used in the context of the module having a coursework/summative examination split; where the module is 100% coursework, there will also be a resit of the assessment

Pre-requisite	None
Co-requisite	None
Compatibles	None
Incompatibles	None

All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml

Indicative Content and Learning Activities

Theory and policy in further education and training: the pursuit of the learner worker

From apprenticeship to communities of practice

Getting radical: community education for social justice

Competency based learning and frameworks of qualifications including the Irish NFQ

Getting inclusive - work and community education for social inclusion

Indicative Reading List

Books:

edited by David Boud and John Garrick: 1999, Understanding learning at work, Routledge, New York, 0415182298
Paulo Freire: 1998, Teachers as cultural workers, Two, Westview Press, Boulder, Colo., 17-26, 0813323045
Etienne Wenger: 2006, Communities of practice, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 0521663636
Myles Horton and Paulo Freire; edited by Brenda Bell, John Gaventa, and John Peters: 1990, We make the road by walking, Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 0877227756
Karen Evans... [et al.]: 2006, Improving workplace learning, Routledge, New York, 0415371198

Articles:

James & Simmons: 2007, Alternative assessment for learner engagement in a climate of performativity: lessons from an English case study, Assessment in Education, 14 (3), 353-71, 0969-594X, 525672
2007: Constructing identities and making careers: young people's perspectives on work and learning, International Journal of Lifelong Education, 26 (5), 495-511, 0260-1370, 525673, 1
The learning worker, organizations and democracy: International Journal of Lifelong Education, 22 (6), 620-34, 0260-1370, 525674, 1, Billett & Pavlova
International Journal of Lifelong Education: 24 (3), 195-11, 0260-1370, 525675, 1, Buiskool, van Lakerveld & Broek, 2009
44 (2): 145-53, 1465-3435, 525676, 1, Wenger, 2000, Communities of practice and social learning systems
225-46: 525677, 1, Young, 2007, Qualifications Frameworks: some conceptual issues, European Journal of Education
525678: 1, Raffe, 2012, What is the evidence for the impact of National Qualifications Frameworks?, Comparative Education, i-First, 1-20, 0305-0068
1: Kamp, 2003, Mature Women and the New Zealand Qualifications Framework, International Education Journal, 4 (1), 17-23, 1443-1475,
Cameron & Miller: 2004, Recipes for recognition and lifelong learning: community based approaches to fostering learning transitions, Conference Paper, September 2004, 1-11, http://epubs.scu.edu.au/gcm_pubs/31/,

Other Resources

None