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Unravelling Workplace Educators' Judgment Processes When Assessing Students' Performance at the Workplace
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M. E. De Vos; L. K. J. Baartman; C. P. M. Van der Vleuten; E. De Bruijn – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2024
The assessment of workplace learning by educators at the workplace is a complex and inherently social process, as the workplace is a participatory learning environment. We therefore propose seeing assessment as a process of judgment embedded in a community of practice and to this purpose use the philosophy of inferentialism to unravel the judgment…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Workplace Learning, Communities of Practice, Foreign Countries
Facilitation of Value Creation in Professional Learning Networks
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Max Aangenendt; Ellen Sjoer; Christian Wallner – Higher Education Studies, 2023
Professional learning networks (PLN) in Higher Education represent new social configurations for networked workplaces in which education, research and innovation can be combined. Here academic staff engages with others outside of their everyday organisational community. This study identifies and conceptualizes essential behaviours that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Personnel, Facilitators (Individuals), Higher Education
Networked Individualism and Learning in Organizations: An Ego-Network Perspective on Informal Learning Ties
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Schreurs, Bieke; Van den Beemt, Antoine; Moolenaar, Nienke; De Laat, Maarten – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2019
Purpose: This paper aims to investigate the extent professionals from the vocational sector are networked individuals. The authors explore how professionals use their personal networks to engage in a wide variety of learning activities and examine what social mechanisms influence professionals' agency to form personal informal learning networks.…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Workplace Learning, Social Networks, Learning Activities
Communities of Practice in the School Workplace
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Brouwer, Patricia; Brekelmans, Mieke; Nieuwenhuis, Loek; Simons, Robert-Jan – Journal of Educational Administration, 2012
Purpose: The first aim of this study is to explore to what extent communities of practice occur in the school workplace. The second aim is to explore the relation between communities of practice and diversity in composition of teacher teams. Design/methodology/approach: Quantitative as well as qualitative data were gathered from seven teacher…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Learning Activities, Observation, Work Environment
Experiences of Pioneers Facilitating Teacher Networks for Professional Development
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Hanraets, Irene; Hulsebosch, Joitske; de Laat, Maarten – Educational Media International, 2011
This study presents an exploration into facilitation practices of teacher professional development networks. Stimulating networked learning amongst teachers is a powerful way of creating an informal practice-based learning space driven by teacher needs. As such, it presents an additional channel (besides more formal traditional professional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inservice Teacher Education, Informal Education, Networks
Learning in the School Workplace: Knowledge Acquisition and Modelling in Preparatory Vocational Secondary Education
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van Schaik, Martijn; van Oers, Bert; Terwel, Jan – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2010
This paper addresses the composite question of whether it is better in vocational education to allow students to design their own models and guide them while doing so, or to provide them with ready-made models. To answer this question we set up a design experiment in which students were asked to work on real-life assignments, guided by teachers in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Workplace Learning, Simulation