The discursive construction of the ‘competent’ learner-worker: from key competencies to ‘employability skills’Footnote1

This paper is drawn from an Australian Research Council funded project (2002–4), ‘Changing Work, Changing Workers, Changing Selves: A Study of Pedagogies in the New Vocationalism’. The chief investigators are Clive Chappell, Nicky Solomon, Mark Tennant and Lyn Yates, all of the University of Technology, Sydney.

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