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The Role of Transformational Leadership, Organizational Culture and Organizational Learning in Improving the Performance of Iranian Agricultural Faculties
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Abbasi, Enayat; Zamani-Miandashti, Naser – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2013
This empirical research was conducted to investigate the role of transformational leadership, organizational culture and organizational learning in improving the performance of Iranian agricultural faculties and leading them to become learning organizations. The research population consisted of all faculty members of public agricultural faculties…
Descriptors: Transformational Leadership, Organizational Culture, Agricultural Education, College Faculty
Toward a 3-P Model of Workplace Learning: A Literature Review
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Tynjala, Paivi – Vocations and Learning, 2013
The interest in research focusing on learning taking place at work, through work and for work has considerably increased over the past two decades. The purpose of the paper is to review and structure this wide and diverse research field. A tentative holistic model--the 3-P model of workplace learning--is presented, in relation to which the…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Vocational Education, Education Work Relationship, Communities of Practice
Learning and Cognition
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Gr ver Aukrust, Vibeke, Ed. – Elsevier, 2011
This collection of 58 articles from the recently-published third edition of the International Encyclopedia of Education focuses on learning, memory, attention, problem solving, concept formation, and language. Learning and cognition is the foundation of cognitive psychology and encompasses many topics including attention, memory, categorization,…
Descriptors: Memory, Concept Formation, Cognitive Psychology, Problem Solving
An Examination of Educational Institutions' Knowledge Performance: Analysis, Implications and Outlines for Future Research
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Kumar, Naresh; Idris, Khairuddin – Learning Organization, 2006
Purpose: This study aims to explore the relationships between learning organisation dimensions, institutional characteristics and knowledge performance among Malaysian private higher learning institutions. Design/methodology/approach: The researchers sought managers' responses to the dimensions of the learning organisation questionnaire (DLOQ)…
Descriptors: Institutional Characteristics, Program Effectiveness, Organizational Development, College Environment
Exploring the Connections between Adult and Management Education
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Brookfield, Stephen D.; Kalliath, Thomas; Laiken, Marilyn – Journal of Management Education, 2006
Stephen Brookfield has written and edited 10 books on adult learning, teaching, and critical thinking. He is a recipient of a number of awards, including the World Award for Literature in Adult Education (in 1986, 1989, 1996, and 2005), the Imogene Okes Award for Outstanding Research in Adult Education (in 1986), and the Leadership Award from the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Lifelong Learning, Adult Learning, Social Responsibility
European Perspectives on the Learning Organisation
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Nyhan, Barry; Cressey, Peter; Tomassini, Massimo; Kelleher, Michael; Poell, Rob – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2004
This paper, based on a publication entitled "Facing up to the Learning Organisation Challenge," published in April 2003, provides an overview of the main questions emerging from recent European research projects related to the topic of the learning organisation. The rationale for focusing on this topic is the belief that the European…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Human Resources, Vocational Education, Organizational Development