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Parding, Karolina; Abrahamsson, Lena – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2010
Purpose: The aim of this article is to challenge the concept of "the learning organization" as unproblematic and inherently good. Design/methodology/approach: The research looked at how teachers--as an example of public sector professionals in a work organization that claims to be a learning organization--view their conditions for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Workplace Learning, Secondary School Teachers, Teaching Conditions
Fitzpatrick, Maeve; O'Connell, Janice; Murphy, Eamonn – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2010
The role of work-based learning is a pivotal part of developing the learning region. With rates of employment at their highest for many years across Europe, the need for up-skilling the workforce in many areas will be essential to retain competitiveness and employability. This paper will focus on quality management up-skilling in small to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Expertise, Economic Climate, Labor Force Development
Sebrant, Ulla – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2008
In a previous ethnographic study (Sebrant, 2000) a social constructionist view of how social identity is produced among professional groups in Swedish healthcare was developed. Looking at the workplace as an important environment for identity construction suggested that these processes were conditions for learning. The purpose of this paper is to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnography, Health Services, Geriatrics