Union Learning Representatives: Challenges and Opportunities

ISBN-13: 9781138986510 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 154 str.

Alex Alexandrou;¬Abar;¬Abar

Opis

This book highlights the growth and influence of ULRs in the field of workplace learning and how important they have become in encouraging their fellow employees to embark on a lifelong learning journey that benefits the individual, their organisation and society.

This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of In-Service Education.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Union Learning Representatives and the Professional Development Agenda Alex Alexandrou  2. Unions and Learning: An Historical Overview Bert Clough  3. The Evolving Role of Union Learning Representatives  Sian Moore and Cilla Ross  4. Understanding the Role of Union Learning Representatives in Developing Distinctive Approaches to Union Learning Steve Shelley  5. Challenging the Orthodoxy: Union Learning Representatives as Organic Intellectuals Howard Stevenson  6. Learning Agreements and Socially Responsible Approaches to Professional and Human Resource Development in the United Kingdom Emma Wallis  7. Partnership Out of Conflict: The Emerging Relationship of Teacher Learning Representatives and Local Authority Continuing Professional Development Quality Improvement Officers in Scotland Alex Alexandrou and Jim O’Brien  8. In-service Learning in the Emergent Learning Representative Initiative in New Zealand Bill Lee and Catherine Cassell  9. The New Zealand Learning Representatives Project: An Assessment of the Pilot Years Donald Farr  10. Educational Ambassadors in the Danish Trade Union Movement Michael Keil

O autorze

Alex Alexandrou has worked extensively in the fields of continuing professional development, human resource management and industrial relations in both the public and private sectors, as both an academic and practitioner. He is currently a Research Associate with the Centre for Educational Leadership at the University of Edinburgh as well as Honorary Secretary of the International Professional Development Association and an Associate Editor of the academic journal, Professional Development in Education.