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Taylor, Jonathan E.; Frye, Steven B. – International Journal of Adult Education and Technology, 2020
This qualitative study examined the role that a priori conceptual frameworks play in fostering learning resistance by adult learners in a mandatory training context. In this qualitative study p/k-12 school teachers were interviewed about the views they held regarding in-service teacher training. Methods consisted of a taxonomic analysis with an…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Adult Students, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
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Hirose, Yayoi – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2022
This study aims to address how practitioners successfully implement action learning in organizations with different cultural values. To effectively adopt action learning, Japanese learners need to learn questioning skills, as they have been brought up in an atmosphere that negates questioning. Using Kolb's learning model, this study aims to…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Asian Culture, Educational Environment, Foreign Countries
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Zhang, Xiaolei; Wong, Jocelyn L. N. – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2018
Studies of professional development have examined the influence of school-based approaches on in-service teacher learning and change but have seldom investigated teachers' job-embedded learning processes. This paper explores the dynamic processes of teacher learning in school-based settings. A qualitative comparative case study based on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Communities of Practice, Inservice Teacher Education
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Fjellström, Magnus; Kristmansson, Per – Education & Training, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to compare, and identify both similarities and differences in, affordances for vocational learning in two contrasting education systems, for construction worker and shop salesperson apprentices, in Swedish contexts. Design/methodology/approach: Data were collected through interviews and observations in two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Apprenticeships, Comparative Analysis, Affordances
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Schaap, H.; Van der Schaaf, M. F.; de Bruijn, E. – Evaluation & Research in Education, 2011
Students in competence-based senior secondary vocational education are expected to actively construct personal knowledge during school-based learning and workplace learning. This study introduces the construct "personal professional theory" (PPT) to monitor and analyse students' personal knowledge development. It aims to investigate the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Competency Based Education, Vocational Education
Hoekstra, Annemarieke – Online Submission, 2007
The aim of the research reported in this dissertation is to describe how experienced secondary school teachers learn at work in an informal environment. The study is part of a larger research project aimed at providing a conceptual framework of teacher learning in the workplace as it takes place both in informal and formal learning environments.…
Descriptors: Experienced Teachers, Informal Education, Workplace Learning, Secondary School Teachers