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Exploring a Practice Theoretical Tool-Kit Approach for Studying Professional and Organisational Learning Processes: A Pragmatist Interpretation
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Roddy Walker; Anders Buch – Studies in Continuing Education, 2025
This article conceptually explores different practice theoretical vantage points in empirical studies of professional and organisational learning processes. Through an ethnographic study of a management development program in Denmark, possibilities and limitations of three different practice-theoretical approaches are considered. Firstly, learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Organizational Learning, Management Development, Learning Processes
An Evaluation-Led Virtual Action Learning Programme--Was the Theory Put into Practice?
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Giambona, G.; Birchall, D. W. – Educational Media International, 2011
Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play an important role in creating a dynamic and successful European economy. Time-poor managers in these organisations generally have fewer opportunities for training and development than their counterparts in larger organisations. As a result, different requirements are placed on training. The aim of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Needs, Experiential Learning, Evidence
Why All This Evaluation? Theoretical Notes and Empirical Observations on the Functions and Growth of Evaluation, with Denmark as an Illustrative Case.
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Albaek, Erik – Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation/La Revue canadienne d'evaluation de programme, 1996
That theoretical debates and developments in organizational analysis can be a source of inspiration for evaluation utilization research is explored through consideration of the societal function of evaluation and its historical development. A discussion of policy evaluation in Danish political administration illustrates evaluation theory and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Research, Evaluation Utilization
Discussion on Some Educational Issues VI. Research Report 145.
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Kansanen, Pertti, Ed. – 1995
This research report presents 10 papers offering views of Finnish, Swedish, British, Danish, and United States educators on teaching and teacher education. The essays are as follows: (1) "The Missing Content in Teaching: Focus on What Teachers Reflect Upon While They Are Teaching" (Mikael Alexandersson); (2) "What Is Reflection? On…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Legislation, Educational Practices, Educational Research