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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 propose directions for future developments in both research and practice. Topics covered include: expectations about 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 'contruction' of learning. Understanding Learning at Work will be an invaluable resource for students and researchers interested in training, HRD, continuing and adult education. Ronald Barnett Institute of Higher Education, University of London. David Boud Institute of Higher Education. Phil Candy Queensland University of Technolgy. Paul Hager Univ
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 propose directions for future developments in both research and practice. Topics covered include: expectations about 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 'contruction' of learning. Understanding Learning at Work will be an invaluable resource for students and researchers interested in training, HRD, continuing and adult education. Ronald Barnett Institute of Higher Education, University of London. David Boud Institute of Higher Education. Phil Candy Queensland University of Technolgy. Paul Hager Univ
Chapter 1 Understandings of Workplace Learning, David Boud, John Garrick; Part 1 Context; Chapter 2 The Changing Contexts of Work, Catherine Casey; Chapter 3 Learning to Work and Working to Learn, Ronald Barnett; Part 2 Perspectives; Chapter 4 New Dimensions in the Dynamics of Learning and Knowledge, Judith H. Matthews, Philip C. Candy; Chapter 5 Finding a Good Theory of Workplace Learning, Paul Hager; Chapter 6 Past the Guru and up the Garden Path, David Beckett; Chapter 7 Gendered Workers and Gendered Work, Belinda Probert; Part 3 Issues in practice; Chapter 8 Culture and Difference in Workplace Learning, Nicky Solomon; Chapter 9 Technologising Equity, Elaine Butler; Chapter 10 Guided Learning at Work, Stephen Billett; Chapter 11 Is Learning Transferable?, Mark Tennant; Chapter 12 Competency-Based Learning, Andrew Gonczi; Part 4 Futures; Chapter 13 Envisioning New Organisations for Learning, Victoria J. Marsick, Karen E. Watkins; Chapter 14 The Dominant Discourses of Learning at Work, John Garrick;
David Boud is Professor of Adult Education at the University of
Technology, Sydney. His most recent publications include Working
With Experience: Animating Learning (Routledge; 1996), Learning
Contracts: A Practical Guide (Kogan Page; 1996) and Using
Experience for Learning (Open University Press; 1995).
John Garrick is a Senior Research Fellow at the Research Centre for
Vocational Education and Training, University of Technology,
Sydney. He is author of Informal Learning in the Workplace (also by
Routledge), and has been widely published on the topics of
workplace reform and industry training, informal learning, the
politics of learning at work and HRD.
'... rich and rewarding discussions of an area of learning outside mainstream educational theorising. I have no hesitation in urging anyone interested in traversing the territory that business and education now have in common, to purchase this book. They will not be dispappointed and will find much that is stimulating and provocative in its pages.' - Studies in Continuing Education
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