Current Issues and New Agendas in Workplace Learning
Author: David Boud
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9781740961370
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Current Issues and New Agendas in Workplace Learning
Author: National Centre for Vocational Education Research (Australia)
Publisher: Ncver
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book focusses on what we know and how we think about workplace learning. It is about understanding the complex and multifaceted field of learning at work and in settings related to employment. It attempts to bring together what is currently known about research on workplace learning in ways which are helpful to researchers, practitioners and policy-makers. In particular it focuses on the needed research agenda in this area. The book seeks to capture the rich and varied work which has been undertaken on the increasingly important phenomenon of workplace learning and to describe it in ways which make it accessible. It aims to generate discussion about directions for development of workplace learning and research associated with it.
Understanding Learning at Work
Author: David Boud
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-10-12
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1134674139
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWork now invariably requires a continual focus on learning: to improve productivity, to enhance the flexibility of employees and to develop and transform organizations. This volume brings together leading experts from the United States, Britain, Australia and New Zealand to critically evaluate the current debates on workplace learning and to propose directions for future developments in both research and practice. Topics covered include: * expectations of learning at work into the twenty-first century * learning theories, practice and performance implications * the relationship between workplace learning and other forms of lifelong learning * the international developments in competency-based approaches to learning and assessment * the influence of language, power, culture and gender upon the 'construction' of learning. Topical and informative, this volume will be an invaluable resource for students and researchers of training, HRD, continuing and adult education.
Integrating School and Workplace Learning in Canada
Author: Hans G. Schuetze
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2004-04
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780773524545
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn response to concerns that the educational system - from public schools through colleges, universities, and apprenticeship programs - cannot adequately prepare students for work in the new economy, Integrating School and Workplace Learning in Canada proposes alternation - a hybrid form of learning that, by combining experiential and cognitive learning skills, allows individuals to develop the relevant skills and intellectual capabilities to address and solve complex problems encountered in the workplace. Alternation involves not only a curricular balance between the theoretical and the practical but also two distinct venues for learning - the classroom and the workplace. The authors discuss cognitive and social learning, its implementation in a variety of settings, its role in smoothing the school/work transition process, and its potential to contribute to the knowledge and skills needed by the workforce. They bring a wide range of disciplinary perspectives to bear in their analyses of the principles and practices of alternation, providing historical, theoretical, and practical insights. Their analysis contributes to and extends the current debate and discussion surrounding necessary changes in our education and training practices.
Emerging Perspectives of Workplace Learning
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2008-01-01
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9087906455
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComprising 15 chapters the book offers perspectives from Finland, Germany, New Zealand and Australia and across a range of occupations and places of work. Individually and collectively these chapters make important contributions to learning about the self and agency at work and about learning work tasks.
The SAGE Handbook of Learning and Work
Author: Margaret Malloch
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2021-10-13
Total Pages: 692
ISBN-13: 1529762065
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first two decades of the 21st century have contributed a growing body of research, theorisation and empirical studies on learning and work. This Handbook takes the consideration of this topic into a new realm, moving beyond the singular linking of identity, learning and work to embrace a more holistic appreciation of learners and their life-long learning. Across 40 chapters, learners, learning and work are situated within educational, organisational, social, economic and political contexts. Taken together, these contributions paint a picture of evolving perspectives of how scholars from around the world view developments in both theory and practice, and map the shifts in learning and work over the past two decades. Part 1: Theoretical perspectives of learning and work Part 2: Intersections of learning and work in organisations and beyond Part 3: Learning throughout working lives and beyond Part 4: Issues and challenges to learning and work
The SAGE Handbook of Workplace Learning
Author: Margaret Malloch
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2010-09-21
Total Pages: 505
ISBN-13: 1446248410
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Handbook provides a state-of-the art overview of the field of workplace learning from a global perspective. The authors are all well-placed theoreticians, researchers, and practitioners in this burgeoning field, which cuts across higher education, vocational education and training, post-compulsory secondary schooling, and lifelong education. The volume provides a broad-based, yet incisive analysis of the range of theory, research, and practical developments in workplace learning. The editors draw together the three essential areas of Theory; Research and Practice; and Issues and Futures in the field of Workplace Learning. In addition, final chapters include recommendations for further development. Key researchers and writers in the field have approached workplaces as the base of learning about work, that is, work-based learning. There has also been emerging interest in variations of this idea such as learning about, through, and at work. Many of the theoretical discussions have centred on adult learning and some on learners managing their own learning, with emphasis on aspects such as communities of practice and self directed learning. In Europe and Australia, early work in the field was often linked to the Vocational Education and Training (VET) traditions with concerns around skills, competencies and ′on the job′ learning. The idea that learning and workplaces had more to do with real lifelong and lifewide aspects than traditional "training" regimens has emerged in the last decade. Since the mid 1990s, the field has grown world-wide as an area of theory, research, and practical work that has not only expanded the interest but has also legitimized the area as a field of study, reflection, and progress. The SAGE Handbook of Workplace Learning draws together a wide range of views, theoretical dispositions, and assertions and provides a leading-edge presentation by key writers and researchers with insight into the field and its current state. It is a resource for researchers and academics interested in the scope and breadth of Workplace Learning..
Life, Work and Learning
Author: David Beckett
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-07-08
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 113471789X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn both paid and unpaid work contexts adults learn powerfully from their experiences. In this book, the authors argue that this should be the basis for a new perception of what is truly educational in life. Drawing on the works of Aristotle, Wittgenstein and Russell, along with contemporary conceptual work, they use both philosophical argument and empirical example to establish their view. This work will be of essential interest to philosophers of education and educational theorists worldwide. It will also interest teachers, trainers, facilitators, and all those with an interest in adult and vocational education.
Research Approaches on Workplace Learning
Author: Christian Harteis
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2022-03-01
Total Pages: 458
ISBN-13: 3030895823
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe volume comprises a variety of research approaches that seek to explore and understand employees’ learning and development through and for work. Working life reveals challenges through technological, economic and societal development that can only rudimentarily be addressed by formal education and training. Workplace learning becomes more and more important for employees and enterprises to successfully cope with these challenges. Workplace learning is a steadily growing field of educational research but it lacks so far a scholastic canon – there is rather a diversity of research approaches. This volume reflects this diversity by bringing together researchers from different countries and different theoretical backgrounds, presenting their current research on topics that all are relevant for understanding presages, processes and outcomes of workplace learning. Hence, this volume is of relevance for researchers as well as practitioners in the field and policy makers.
Understanding Learning at Work
Author: David Boud
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-10-12
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 1134674147
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWork now invariably requires a continual focus on learning: to improve productivity, to enhance the flexibility of employees and to develop and transform organizations. This volume brings together leading experts from the United States, Britain, Australia and New Zealand to critically evaluate the current debates on workplace learning and to propose directions for future developments in both research and practice. Topics covered include: * expectations of learning at work into the twenty-first century * learning theories, practice and performance implications * the relationship between workplace learning and other forms of lifelong learning * the international developments in competency-based approaches to learning and assessment * the influence of language, power, culture and gender upon the 'construction' of learning. Topical and informative, this volume will be an invaluable resource for students and researchers of training, HRD, continuing and adult education.
