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Nye, Adele; Foskey, Roslyn; Edwards, Helen – Studies in Continuing Education, 2014
As educators and lifelong learners, we were drawn together by the question: How have we fostered our own capacity for agency, self-efficacy and risk-taking in the research practices we utilize? This paper reveals a connectivity and enabling thread that has enriched our experiences within and across our disciplinary areas. In particular this paper…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Reflection, Communities of Practice, Higher Education
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Thompson, Terrie Lynn – Studies in Continuing Education, 2012
Actor network theory (ANT) is used to explore how work-learning is enacted in informal online communities and illustrates how researchers might use sociomaterial approaches to uncover complexities, uncertainties, and specificities of work-learning practices. Participants in this study were self-employed workers. The relational and material aspects…
Descriptors: Researchers, Informal Education, Self Employment, Workplace Learning
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Gustavsson, Maria; Ekberg, Kerstin – Studies in Continuing Education, 2015
This article reports on the findings of a planned workplace health promotion intervention, and the aim is to identify conditions that facilitated or restricted the learning to promote health at an emergency care department in a Swedish hospital. The study had a longitudinal design, with interviews before and after the intervention and follow-up…
Descriptors: Emergency Programs, Health Promotion, Intervention, Educational Environment