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This document contains three papers from a symposium on different ways of learning. "How Engineers Learn in the Face of Organizational Change" (Robert Reardon) reports on a qualitative study during which nine engineers described how they learned to perform their altered roles after a major reorganization. The study findings supported…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Education, Adult Learning, Cognitive Style
Buono, Anthony F., Ed. – 2002
This document contains 11 papers that explore knowledge and value development in the field of management consulting, with particular emphasis on trends and techniques in the practice of management consulting and the current theory and dynamics of management consulting. The following papers are included: "Introduction" (Anthony F. Buono);…
Descriptors: Administrators, Change Strategies, Consultants, Cooperative Learning
Marsick, Victoria J.; Volpe, F. Marie; Brooks, Ann; Cseh, Maria; Lovin, Barbara Keelor; Vernon, Sally; Watkins, Karen E.; Ziegler, Mary – 2000
The concept of the free agent learner, which has roots in self-directed and informal learning theory, has recently emerged as a factor important to attracting, developing, and keeping knowledge workers. The literature on free agent learning holds important lessons for today's free agent learners, human resource developers, and work organizations.…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Learning, Career Development, Education Work Relationship
Finke, Wolfgang F. – 2000
This book examines lifelong learning in the Information Age and the role of higher education (HE) in providing the educational services needed by lifelong learners. The following are among the topics discussed in the book's eight chapters: (1) changes in HE (repercussions of globalization in the educational sector; competition in higher learning;…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Behavioral Objectives, Case Studies, Competence
Garrick, John – 1998
This book examines the rhetoric surrounding the notion of informal learning in order to expand debate about the uses of informal learning in workplaces and about attempts to "recognize" it through competency-based standards. The following topics are among those discussed in the book's eight chapters: (1) the nature of informal learning…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Competence
Academy of Human Resource Development Conference Proceedings (Oak Brook, Illinois, March 4-8, 1998).
Torraco, Richard J., Ed. – 1998
These proceedings begin with the schedule, conference committee membership lists, and detailed agenda of the 1998 conference of the Academy of Human Resource Development, which explored the relationship between learning and performance. Presented next are papers grouped by the conference's 35 symposium topics, which are as follows: university…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Case Studies, Cognitive Style
