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The SAGE Handbook of Workplace Learning (eBook, PDF)

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This 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..

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Margaret Malloch, PhD, is recently appointed as Reader, at the University of East London, England from her role as a Senior Lecturer at Victoria University, Australia, in which she coordinated postgraduate programs focusing on Workplace Learning and professional practice. She has several years′ membership of the Executive Committee of the Workplace Learning Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association. Margaret has researched women in Vocational Unions, Women in Education and Change as well as more recent work on the Capable Organisation and Implications for Vocational Education and Training, specifically employers′ views of competency-based qualifications. She is a Past Chair of the American Educational Research Association′s Special Interest Group, Workplace Learning, and is a member of the VETNET Board n the European Educational Research Association. Len Cairns, PhD, is Associate Professor and Associate Dean (Development) in the Faculty of Education at Monash University Australia. He also holds an ongoing Visiting Professor position in the Institute of Work Based Learning at Middlesex University in London. He teaches in the Master of Organisational Leadership and Master of School Leadership programmes at Monash, and is researching and writing in the fields of Workplace Learning, Capability and Leadership. Recent published studies have focussed on Developing Capability through Leadership, Intercultural Capability in Management Education and the impact of NVQs (and related competency-based qualifications) on learning in organisations. A recent volume with Professor John Stephenson, Capable Workplace Learning is in press. Len has recently completed a four year research and development programme on Educational Leaders with Professor Peter Gronn funded by the Australian and Victorian State governments. Len is a past Chair of the Workplace Learning Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association. Karen Evans, PhD, is Chair in Education (Lifelong Learning) at the Institute of Education, University of London; Co-Director of the Centre for Excellence in Work-Based Learning for Education Professionals and past Head of the School of Lifelong Education and International Development. She has directed numerous international research studies on workplace learning and on learning in life and work transitions. Her previous books include Learning, Work and Social Responsibility (Springer 2009); Improving Workplace Learning (Routledge, 2006); Reconnection: Countering Social Exclusion through Situated Learning (Springer 2004) Working to Learn: Transforming Learning in the Workplace (Routledge 2002) and Learning and Work in the Risk Society (Palgrave 2000). Her international interests are also reflected in her editorship of the journal of international and comparative education COMPARE, between 2004 and 2009. Bridget N. O′Connor, Ph.D, is Professor of Higher Education and Business Education at New York University. She is the coauthor of Learning at Work (HRD Press, 2007) End-user Information Systems: Implementing Individual and Group Technologies (Prentice Hall, 2002) and Training for Organizations (South-Western, 2002). She is a past president of the Organizational Systems Research Association and was chair of its two national model curriculum projects and editor of its journal, Information Technology, Learning and Performance Journal. She is a Past Chair of the American Educational Research Association′s Special Interest Group, Workplace Learning. She is also a past Chairperson of the New York University Faculty Senators Council. In 2006, she was a Fulbright Senior Specialist at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications
• Seitenzahl: 504
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781446248416
• Artikelnr.: 38407500

Rezensionen

'Over the past decade, workplace learning has become one of the major areas of development for business, management and education. Yet ideas about it are diverse and complex and its practice is affected by competing influences and differing perspectives. This essential guide brings together many of the world's leading scholars to clarify and explore the various concepts and approaches in ways that will benefit practitioners, researchers, educators and policymakers alike'

Tom Nesbit
Simon Fraser University