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Direct linkSiklander, Pirkko; Impiö, Niina – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2019
We need to know what it means to be an expert in working life today. Universities are often accused of neglecting the basic idea that higher education should be relevant to working life, and research on the subject of expertise in today's workplace is lacking. Thirteen experts from different fields were interviewed and the obtained data were…
Descriptors: Universities, Education Work Relationship, Specialists, Grounded Theory
Zettinig, Peter; Aleem, Majid; Majdenic, Danijela; Berry, Michael – Journal of Management Education, 2022
Graduates of international business (IB) programs are facing a complex dynamic world in which they need both specific and generalist knowledge they can activate in socially negotiated situations. Their competencies must go beyond narrowly applying knowledge, which requires open minds, transferable social competencies, and skills for crossing…
Descriptors: International Trade, Work Environment, Interpersonal Competence, Job Skills
Sorvari, Jaana; Rusko, Satu; Jackson, Nina; Ainonen, Hanna-Leena – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2020
This activity report describes two cases of Language teaching for degree students in the University of Oulu with new pedagogical approaches aiming towards authentic working life skills. Co-creation, collaborative learning and cooperation across borders are the building blocks for these innovative language teaching projects. Case 1 describes…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Case Studies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Peer reviewedEngestrom, Yrjo; Young, Michael – Journal of Education and Work, 2001
Engestrom examines activity theory and expansive learning by describing Who are the subjects of learning? Why do they learn? What do they learn? and How do they learn? Presents five principles: activity system as the unit of analysis, multiple voices, historicity, contradictions as sources of change, and expansive transformation. Young provides…
Descriptors: Adults, Foreign Countries, Learning Processes, Learning Theories
Collin, Kaija – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2006
Purpose: The paper seeks to investigate design engineers' and product developers' learning through their work. The aim was to approach designers' work practice and their learning in the course of it as perceived by the designers themselves. The aim is also to examine their learning through the various individual and social processes, which take…
Descriptors: Design, Engineering, Technical Occupations, Learning
Miller, Carolyn; Ross, Nick; Freeman, Marnie – 1999
The role of collaborative/shared learning in nursing, midwifery, and visiting nurse education in the United Kingdom was explored to identify the qualities and skills needed by practitioners to work effectively in multiprofessional contexts and establish the fit between the knowledge and skills needed in multiprofessional practice and the teaching…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Allied Health Personnel, Case Studies, Change Strategies
