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Workplace Learning, VET and Vocational Pedagogy: The Transformation of Practice
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Avis, James – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2014
The paper addresses workplace learning; vocational pedagogy, education and knowledge; and the transformation of practice. It draws upon discussions of vocationalism, vocational pedagogies as well as the constitution of vocational knowledge(s), debates which are set within particular historical and socioeconomic as well as national contexts. It…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Workplace Learning, Educational Change
What Every Worker Wants? Evidence about Employee Demand for Learning
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Findlay, Jeanette; Findlay, Patricia; Warhurst, Chris – British Educational Research Journal, 2012
In order to boost learning, recent UK governments have invested in trade union-led workplace learning. Investing in the supply of learning is useful but ignores the demand for learning by workers, about which there is little research. This paper addresses this lacunae by analysing worker demand for learning, which workers want learning, what…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Human Capital, Unions, Workplace Learning
Organizational Learning from the Perspective of Knowledge Maturing Activities
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Kaschig, A.; Maier, R.; Sandow, A.; Lazoi, M.; Schmidt, A.; Barnes, S.-A.; Bimrose, J.; Brown, A.; Bradley, C.; Kunzmann, C.; Mazarakis, A. – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2013
The level of similarity of knowledge work across occupations and industries allows for the design of supportive information and communication technology (ICT) that can be widely used. In a previous ethnographically informed study, we identified activities that can be supported to increase knowledge maturing, conceptualized as goal-oriented…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Technology Uses in Education, Best Practices, Telephone Surveys
Characterising Work-Based Learning as a Triadic Learning Endeavour
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Dalrymple, Roger; Kemp, Chris; Smith, Patrick – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2014
With work-based learning (WBL) forming an increasingly prevalent dimension of modern higher education practice, conceptual models of the pedagogies underpinning WBL are increasingly emerging. There is broadening recognition of the need to capture and represent the values and presuppositions underlying WBL in order to support facilitators and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Workplace Learning, Higher Education, Facilitators (Individuals)
Why Process Improvement Training Fails
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Lu, Dawei; Betts, Alan – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2011
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the underlying reasons why providing process improvement training, by itself, may not be sufficient to achieve the desired outcome of improved processes; and to attempt a conceptual framework of management training for more effective improvement. Design/methodology/approach: Two similar units within…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Management Development, Organizational Development, Workplace Learning
Using Role-Play for Expert Science Communication with Professional Stakeholders in Flood Risk Management
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McEwen, Lindsey; Stokes, Alison; Crowley, Kate; Roberts, Carolyn – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2014
This paper explores role-play pedagogies in learning and communicating about cutting-edge flood science by flood risk management professionals in local government. It outlines role-play process/structure and evaluates participant perceptions of their learning experiences. Issues were impacts of prior role-play experience on attitudes brought to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Role Playing, Risk Management, Natural Disasters