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Learning for Renewal; Learning in a Trade Union Practice
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Kopsen, Susanne – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2011
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyze learning in a Swedish trade union board in a workplace, according to contemporary challenges in working life and conditions, of decentralization and local independency of trade union work and learning. Design/methodology/approach: The paper is based on ethnographic studies of two Swedish local trade…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Ethnography, Unions, Learning Processes
Understanding Students' Understanding. Some Qualitative Aspects of the Process and Outcome of Teaching and Learning at University Level. No. 80.
Dahlgren, Lars Owe – 1979
Two kinds of research groups have evolved in higher education: one devoted to student learning and the other to teacher training. Both groups share a common interest in the development of student thinking and appear to be proceeding along parallel paths, which may be to their disadvantage. At the same time, some researchers in teacher training are…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Educational Practices, Educational Research
Can A Person Teach All He Knows? Evidence from Interpersonal Learning of Inductive Inference Tasks. Omea Psychological Reports, No. 142.
Andersson, Hakan; Brehmer, Berndt – 1978
The hypotheses that interpersonal learning is more effective than individual learning in nonlinear tasks but that students learn relatively less from their teachers when the teachers have to teach a complex nonlinear rule than when they have to teach a simple linear rule was tested in an experiment following the social judgment theory…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Foreign Countries, High Schools, Higher Education
Learning in the Learner's Perspective. I. Some Common-Sense Conceptions. No. 76.
Saljo, Roger – 1979
Ninety Swedish teenagers and adults with varying levels of formal education were interviewed about their own learning experiences and techniques. Subjects were then asked what they actually meant by learning. The concept was variously defined as: (1) an increase in knowledge (merely a synonym for the word learning); (2) memorizing; (3) an…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adults, Conceptual Schemes, Difficulty Level
Learning in the Learner's Perspective. IV. Considering One's Own Strategy. No. 79.
Saljo, Roger – 1979
After reading a passage from a text which explained the deep and surface approaches to learning, ninety Swedish teenagers and adults with varying levels of formal education were asked to discuss their own learning in terms of this distinction. Surprisingly, sixty-one subjects considered both approaches applicable to their own learning. After…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adults, Cognitive Style, Conceptual Schemes
Learning in the Learner's Perspective. II. Differences in Awareness. No. 77.
Saljo, Roger – 1979
Interview data on the learning experiences and techniques of 90 Swedish teenagers and adults were further analyzed to explore changes in views on learning reported by the subjects themselves, and differences between subjects with respect to age (range 15-73) and formal education (range 6-17 years). Some subjects equated knowledge with discrete…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adults, Age Differences, Cognitive Development