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Overarching Professional Identity Themes in Student Teacher Workplace Learning
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Leeferink, Han; Koopman, Maaike; Beijaard, Douwe; Schellings, Gonny, L. M. – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2019
This study reports on how student teachers learn in the workplace. Data from 10 student teachers were collected by means of digital logs and in-depth interviews. By reconstructing data into stories and unravelling these stories, it became clear that the learning process of each student teacher was dominated by one specific theme, such as…
Descriptors: Professional Education, Student Teachers, Workplace Learning, Learning Processes
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
Unraveling the Complexity of Student Teachers' Learning in and from the Workplace
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Leeferink, Han; Koopman, Maaike; Beijaard, Douwe; Ketelaar, Evelien – Journal of Teacher Education, 2015
This study reports on how student teachers' workplace experiences were transformed into learning experiences. In total, 26 stories from 10 student teachers were collected by means of digital logs and in-depth interviews and unraveled using a new technique of reconstructing stories into webs. In these webs, the factors that played a role in student…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Field Instruction, Personal Narratives, Learning Processes
Development of Students' Personal Professional Theories in Senior Secondary Vocational Education
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Schaap, H.; Van der Schaaf, M. F.; de Bruijn, E. – Evaluation & Research in Education, 2011
Students in competence-based senior secondary vocational education are expected to actively construct personal knowledge during school-based learning and workplace learning. This study introduces the construct "personal professional theory" (PPT) to monitor and analyse students' personal knowledge development. It aims to investigate the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Competency Based Education, Vocational Education
Apprenticeship: From Learning Theory to Practice
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Poortman, Cindy Louise; Illeris, Knud; Nieuwenhuis, Loek – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2011
To meet the requirements of an increasingly innovative and competitive environment, workers need to continuously develop and maintain competence. Consequently, initial vocational education and training should prepare (future) workers by providing a basis for lifelong learning in developing both routine and flexible competence. The question is…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Learning Theories, Learning Strategies, Lifelong Learning
Experienced Teachers' Informal Learning in the Workplace. IVLOS Series
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Hoekstra, Annemarieke – Online Submission, 2007
The aim of the research reported in this dissertation is to describe how experienced secondary school teachers learn at work in an informal environment. The study is part of a larger research project aimed at providing a conceptual framework of teacher learning in the workplace as it takes place both in informal and formal learning environments.…
Descriptors: Experienced Teachers, Informal Education, Workplace Learning, Secondary School Teachers