Cultural Work and Higher Education

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Cultural Work and Higher Education....Pages 1-21
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
Making Workers: Higher Education and the Cultural Industries Workplace....Pages 25-44
Making Your Way: Empirical Evidence from a Survey of 3,500 Graduates....Pages 45-66
Front Matter....Pages 67-67
Precariously Mobile: Tensions between the Local and the Global in Higher Education Approaches to Cultural Work....Pages 69-86
No Longer Just Making the Tea: Media Work Placements and Work-Based Learning in Higher Education....Pages 87-109
Media Enterprise in Higher Education: A Laboratory for Learning....Pages 110-130
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
Smashing Childlike Wonder? The Early Journey into Higher Education....Pages 133-153
Negotiating a Contemporary Creative Identity....Pages 154-171
Industry Practitioners in Higher Education: Values, Identities and Cultural Work....Pages 172-192
Front Matter....Pages 193-193
Creative Networks and Social Capital....Pages 195-213
The Cultural Industries in a Critical Multicultural Pedagogy....Pages 214-231
‘What Do You Need to Make It as a Woman in This Industry? Balls!’: Work Placements, Gender and the Cultural Industries....Pages 232-253
Afterword: Further and Future Directions for Cultural Work and Higher Education....Pages 254-263
Back Matter....Pages 264-271