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Holmgren, Robert; Sjöberg, David – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore Swedish police education teachers' informal workplace learning and its perceived value for their professional development. Two categories of teachers, police teachers and university teachers, with different professional knowledge and experience, work together at the police education unit.…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Workplace Learning, Police Education, Faculty Development
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Gander, Michelle; McInnes, Margot – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2021
Purpose: The professional development needs of university professional staff are an under-researched area. More data were needed to understand their needs to ensure that employers invest their resources appropriately. A conceptual framework is developed for the workplace learning of career development activities using concepts of professional…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Faculty Development, Career Development, Communities of Practice
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Huang, Xianhan; Lai, Chun – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2020
Purpose: It is vital in today's society that teachers are proactively involved in educational change. Given that proactive motivation is a critical driver of proactivity, this study aims to investigate how teachers' formal and informal workplace-learning experiences were connected with their proactive motivations to implement educational change.…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Educational Change, Learning Experience, Informal Education
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Phusavat, Kongkiti; Hidayanto, Achmad Nizar; Kess, Pekka; Kantola, Jussi – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2019
Purpose: This study aims to develop a pedagogy which would help a school become a workplace for learning and professional development. Essentially, this objective addresses the following critical question. How can a school become an attractive workplace where learning and professional development of teachers positively contribute to better…
Descriptors: Design, Thinking Skills, Instructional Effectiveness, Faculty Development
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Fox, Alison; Deaney, Rosemary; Wilson, Elaine – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2010
Purpose: This paper, taking a participatory perspective of learning, seeks to look at the interaction between individuals and their workplace, focusing on the perceptions of workplaces and self by beginning teachers in terms of support for their learning. Design/methodology/approach: The study presents an analysis of 37 interviews from 17…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Beginning Teachers, Faculty Development, Teacher Educators
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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