Knowing Work

The Editors: Markus Weil, Ph.D., works as an associate at the University Teaching and Learning Center at the University of Zurich. His research focuses on university teaching and learning, workplace learning, and vocational and adult education. He is especially interested in the concepts of co-operation and networking within education and economics.
Leena Koski is a professor of sociology at the University of Joensuu (Finland) specialising in the sociology of education. Her field of expertise is in studying the moral orders of education both institutionally (elementary, university, and vocational education) and in relation to late modern culture and policies (individualisation, normalisation, neo-liberal governance, gender). One of her research fields is the historical formation of gender and class differences in educational ideals.
Liv Mjelde is a professor of vocational pedagogy at Akershus University College (Norway). She is a sociologist by training and a specialist in the sociology of education. She is an expert in studying the changing relations between vocational and general education from psychological (forms of knowledge), didactic (workshop and classroom learning), and sociological (division of manual and mental labour) perspectives. One of her research fields is the gender divisions in vocational education and in the manual labour market.