International Handbook of Research in Professional and Practice-based Learning

Dr Stephen Billett is Professor of Adult and Vocational Education in the School of Education and Professional Studies at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia and also an Australian Research Council Future Fellow. Stephen has worked as a vocational educator, educational administrator, teacher educator, professional development practitioner and policy developer within the Australian vocational education system and as a teacher and researcher at Griffith University. Since 1992, he has researched  Dr Christian Harteis is Full Professor of Educational Management and Research on Further Education at the University of Paderborn, Germany. His research field is professional learning, he has done several studies on individual and organisational influences on learning at workplaces. Latest research topics are learning from mistakes and intuition as component of professional competence. During his academic career since 1996 he worked at several German universities. He regularly gives guest lectures at the University of Turku (Finland) and the University of Antwerp (Belgium). Hans Gruber is Professor of Educational Science at the University of Regensburg, Germany, and also Senior Fellow at the Faculty of Education, University of Turku, Finland. He is President-Elect of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI) and member of the Review Board for Educational Science within the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). From 2010 to 2012, he served as Vice-Rector for Study Affairs at the University of Regensburg, Germany. He has researched professional learning, expertise, workplace learning, and higher education for many years.