This book analyses and elaborates on learning processes within work environments and explores professional learning. It presents research indicating general characteristics of the work environment that support learning, as well as barriers to workplace learning. Themes of professional development, lifelong learning and business organisation emerge through the chapters and contributions explore theoretical and empirical analyses on the boundary between working and learning in various contexts and with various methodological approaches.
Readers will discover how current workplace...
This book analyses and elaborates on learning processes within work environments and explores professional learning. It presents research indicatin...
This book generates a comprehensive account of ways in which practice-based learning has been conceptualized in the Francophone context. This focus on learning through work has long been emphasised in the Francophone world, which has developed distinct traditions and conceptions of associations between work and learning.
This book generates a comprehensive account of ways in which practice-based learning has been conceptualized in the Francophone context. This focus on...
Such imperatives are reflected in the cooperative education movement in North America, the foundation degree programs of the United Kingdom, the work integrated learning approach within Australian higher education and initiatives in a range of other countries.
Such imperatives are reflected in the cooperative education movement in North America, the foundation degree programs of the United Kingdom, the work ...
This book discusses how the Dutch vocational education system has undergone significant waves of reform driven by global imperatives, national concerns and governmental policy goals. Like elsewhere, the impetuses for these reforms are directed to generating a more industry-responsive, locally-accountable and competence-based vocational education system. Each wave of reforms, however, has had particular emphases, and directed to achieve particular policy outcomes. Yet, they are more than mere versions of what had or is occurring elsewhere. They are shaped by specific national imperatives,...
This book discusses how the Dutch vocational education system has undergone significant waves of reform driven by global imperatives, national conc...
This book shares a range of examples where international students have undertaken a work placement, practicum, internship or participated in work integrated learning.
This book shares a range of examples where international students have undertaken a work placement, practicum, internship or participated in work inte...
The present book collects, integrates, and discusses the range of perspectives and discourses on agency at work. In addition, the book compiles the empirical research that has been generated by various perspectives. The chapters deal with the relationship between (a) agency at work, and (b) professional learning and development. They encompass a wide variety of working life domains and/or contexts, and are based on a broad range of epistemological and theoretical standpoints.
This volume is not only thought to bring together current research, but also to foster the...
The present book collects, integrates, and discusses the range of perspectives and discourses on agency at work. In addition, the book compiles the...
The latest developments in information and communication technology seem to open new potential, and the crucial question arises which kind of work can be replaced by technology?
The latest developments in information and communication technology seem to open new potential, and the crucial question arises which kind of work can...
