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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
Experienced Teachers' Informal Workplace Learning and Perceptions of Workplace Conditions
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Hoekstra, Annemarieke; Korthagen, Fred; Brekelmans, Mieke; Beijaard, Douwe; Imants, Jeroen – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore in detail how teachers' perceptions of workplace conditions for learning are related to their informal workplace learning activities and learning outcomes. Design/methodology/approach: From a sample of 32 teachers, a purposeful sampling technique of maximal variation was used to select two cases…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Learning Activities, Interaction, Experienced Teachers
Changing Workplace.
1998
This document contains four papers from a symposium on the changing workplace and its relationship to human resource development (HRD). In "Globalization, Immigration and Quality of Life Dynamics for Reverse Brain Drains" (Ben-Chieh Liu, Maw Lin Lee, Hau-Lien), the factors responsible for the brain drain from Taiwan to the United States…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Brain Drain, Education Work Relationship, Employee Attitudes