NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 10 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Rynne, Steven B.; Mallett, Cliff J. – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2012
Background: The development of high performance sports coaches has been proposed as a major imperative in the professionalization of sports coaching. Accordingly, an increasing body of research is beginning to address the question of how coaches learn. While this is important work, an understanding of how coaches learn must be underpinned by an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Public Relations, Semi Structured Interviews
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Rynne, Steven B.; Mallett, Clifford J.; Tinning, Richard – Sport, Education and Society, 2010
The Australian coaching workplace (to be referred to as the State Institute of Sport; SIS) under consideration in this study employs significant numbers of full-time performance sport coaches and can be accurately characterized as a genuine workplace. Through a consideration of the interaction between what the workplace (SIS) affords the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Athletic Coaches, Interviews, Epistemology
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
McCormack, Rob; Pancini, Geri; Tout, Dan – International Journal of Training Research, 2010
Victoria University, like many other educational institutions, has recently nominated workplace learning as an essential feature of all its courses. As a contribution to the framing of this shift in an educationally responsible way, this article explores the question: How can tertiary education organisations design on-campus work-based experience…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Mentors, Learning Strategies, Education Work Relationship
National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2008
Many organisations, including VET providers, are looking to find ways to achieve competitive advantage through the people they employ. Creating this advantage has a number of facets and most of these depend on training and developing people, and their ability to learn. The VET sector also faces significant changes in the ways it does business.…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Vocational Education, Organizational Development, Work Environment
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Boud, David; Rooney, Donna; Solomon, Nicky – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2009
Learning in workplaces is always mediated through talk. It is tempting for management to seek to utilise everyday talk as part of learning and therefore enhance productivity. This paper examines the responses of workers to interventions that aim to formalise informal conversations at work as part of an explicit workplace learning strategy. It…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employee Attitudes, Work Environment, Influence of Technology
Chappell, Clive; Hawke, Geof – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2008
This Support Document was produced by the authors based on their research for the report, "Investigating Learning through Work: The Development of the 'Provider Learning Environment Scale'" (ED503392). While couched in very different terms, the analysis presented in this report points to a substantial overlap in the conceptual bases that…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Vocational Education, Organizational Development, Work Environment
Hawke, Geof; Chappell, Clive – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2008
This Support Document was produced by the authors based on their research for the report, "Investigating Learning through Work: The Development of the 'Provider Learning Environment Scale'" (ED503392). It provides readers with a complete copy of the "Provider Learning Environment Scale" (version 2.0); and an accompanying user…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Vocational Education, Organizational Development, Work Environment
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Brown, Tony – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2008
Purpose: Trade unions, like many other membership-based social movement organisations, are confronted by the challenge of growth and revitalisation. Declining membership numbers, an increasingly restrictive legislative framework, and dramatic changes in modes of employment have combined to challenge many unions to rethink the way they work. In…
Descriptors: Participant Observation, Unions, Foreign Countries, Interviews
Chappell, Clive; Hawke, Geof – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2008
The purpose of this research activity was to investigate contemporary understandings of the connections between learning and work. This initial work was then used to inform the development of an organisational tool that registered training organisations (RTOs) could use to identify organisational practices likely to lead to greater learning at…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Educational Environment, Educational Change, Vocational Education
Billett, Stephen – 2001
The factors that influence learning in workplaces were examined through a study of guided learning in five workplaces. Special attention was paid to the dual considerations of how workplaces afford opportunities for learning and how individuals elect to engage in activities and the guidance provided by the workplace. The readiness of the workplace…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Case Studies, Education Work Relationship