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Anne Karhapää; Raija Hämäläinen; Johanna Pöysä-Tarhonen – Studies in Continuing Education, 2025
Informal workplace learning is an essential part of lifelong learning. In recent years, digital technology has come to play an increasingly important role in enabling informal learning at work through various tools and resources. However, as little empirical research exists on informal learning in this context, more knowledge of digital work…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Work Environment, Teleworking, Informal Education
Nielsen, Klaus – Studies in Continuing Education, 2008
This article proposes the need to address scaffold instructions from a situated learning perspective. Based on an empirical study of how apprentice bakers learn their trade, it is claimed that studies of learning at the workplace yield important insights into our understanding of scaffold instructions. Seen from the perspective of the apprentices,…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Adults, Interviews, Adult Learning
Timma, Hilary – Studies in Continuing Education, 2007
This paper explores how worker identities are shaped (and reshaped) in the workplace through the interconnected experiences of assessment, work and learning. Drawing on a study conducted at three food production companies in regional Victoria, the paper locates these workplace experiences as social constructions and considers the significance of…
Descriptors: Food Processing Occupations, Foreign Countries, Work Environment, Industrial Psychology
Billett, Stephen; Smith, Raymond; Barker, Michelle – Studies in Continuing Education, 2005
This paper focuses on dualities in both the process and outcomes of participation in work. First, the process of participation in work activities and interactions draws on contributions of both individuals and the social world in ways that are variably interdependent, that is, relational. The affordances of workplaces shape the array of…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Job Satisfaction, Work Environment, Work Experience
Hager, Paul – Studies in Continuing Education, 2004
Recent research on learning in work situations has focused on concepts such as 'productive learning' and 'pedagogy of vocational learning'. In investigating what makes learning productive and what pedagogies enhance this, there is a tendency to take the notion of learning as unproblematic. This paper argues that much writing on workplace learning…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Education Work Relationship, Productive Thinking, Learning Processes