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Paloniemi, Susanna – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2006
Purpose: This paper aims to examine employees' conceptions of the meaning of experience in job-competence and its development in workplace context. The aim is to bring out the variety of conceptions related to experience, competence and workplace learning. Design/methodology/approach: The paper is based on interview data from six Finnish small and…
Descriptors: Employees, On the Job Training, Work Experience, Foreign Countries
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Collin, Kaija – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2006
Purpose: The paper seeks to investigate design engineers' and product developers' learning through their work. The aim was to approach designers' work practice and their learning in the course of it as perceived by the designers themselves. The aim is also to examine their learning through the various individual and social processes, which take…
Descriptors: Design, Engineering, Technical Occupations, Learning
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Berg, Derek H.; Taylor, Jennifer; Hutchinson, Nancy L.; Munby, Hugh; Versnel, Joan; Chin, Peter – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2007
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe the assessment practices reported by Canadian educators and workplace supervisors involved in exemplary work-based education (WBE) programs for high-school students. Design/methodology/approach: Six focus groups were conducted, four with teachers and coordinators and two with workplace supervisors…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, Focus Groups, Student Evaluation, High School Students