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Rule, John; Dunston, Roger; Solomon, Nicky – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2016
Purpose: This paper aims to provide an account of learning and change in the redesign of a primary health-care initiative in a large metropolitan city in Australia. Design/Methodology/ Approach: The paper is based on research exploring the place and role of learning in the re-making of health professional practices in a major New South Wales…
Descriptors: Primary Health Care, Program Design, Educational Change, Longitudinal Studies
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Reich, Ann; Hager, Paul – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2014
Purpose: This paper aims to problematise practice and contribute to new understandings of professional and workplace learning. Practice is a concept which has been largely taken for granted and under-theorised in workplace learning and education research. Practice has usually been co-located with classifiers, such as legal practice, vocational…
Descriptors: Professional Education, Theory Practice Relationship, Educational Research, Guidelines
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Yasukawa, Keiko; Brown, Tony; Black, Stephen – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2014
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the possibilities for expansive learning during organisational change. It considers the introduction of "lean production" as a disturbance to the existing work practices. Design/methodology/approach: The paper considers two case studies of "lean production" training with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Workplace Learning, Organizational Change, Manufacturing Industry
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Lammintakanen, Johanna; Kivinen, Tuula – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe and compare the views of nurses of different ages on continuing professional development (CPD). The authors were interested in possible differences in the use of formal and especially informal CPD practices between nurses of different ages, and likewise in possible differences in attitudes of…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Nurses, Professional Development, Professional Continuing Education