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Fostering Learning Opportunities through Employee Participation amid Organizational Change
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Valleala, Ulla Maija; Herranen, Sanna; Collin, Kaija; Paloniemi, Susanna – Vocations and Learning, 2015
Health care organizations are facing rapid changes, frequently involving modification of existing procedures. The case study reported here examined change processes and learning in a health care organization. The organizational change in question occurred in the emergency clinic of a Finnish central hospital where a new action model for…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Educational Opportunities, Workplace Learning, Case Studies
Work-Related Identity in Individual and Social Learning at Work
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Collin, Kaija – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2009
Purpose: The aim of this study is to investigate how workers' work-related identity is related to various forms of workplace learning. The study also aims to show how changes in the organization affect both learning and the work-related identity construction of employees. Design/methodology/approach: In-depth interviews with four design engineers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Engineering, Technical Occupations, Job Satisfaction
Characteristics of Workplace Learning among Finnish Vocational Students
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Virtanen, Anne; Tynjälä, Päivi; Collin, Kaija – Vocations and Learning, 2009
In Finnish VET, students' work experience is explicitly defined as workplace learning, instead of the practice of already learnt skills. Therefore, vocational students' learning periods in the workplace are goal-oriented, guided and assessed. This paper examines the characteristics of students' workplace learning and compares them with the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Workplace Learning, Comparative Analysis
Constraints and Challenges on Learning and Construction of Identities at Work
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Collin, Kaija; Paloniemi, Susanna; Virtanen, Anne; Eteläpelto, Anneli – Vocations and Learning, 2008
This paper analyses and discusses different constraints on workplace learning, vocational development and formation of identity. We ask how the learning and development of vocational identities are related to the various learning constraints and restrictions present in the socio-cultural contexts of the workplace. The study utilizes 20 interviews…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Questionnaires, Online Surveys, Vocational Education
Interaction Among Employees: How Does Learning Take Place in the Social Communities of the Workplace and How Might Such Learning be Supervised?
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Collin, Kaija; Valleala, Ulla Maija – Journal of Education & Work, 2005
The purpose of the present study is to look at the senses in which everyday workplace interactions can be considered manifestations of learning at work and the ways in which such activity could be supervised. The data consists of discussions between employees taped in two technology enterprises and three municipal youth centres, analysed from an…
Descriptors: Employees, Work Environment, Cooperative Learning, Foreign Countries
The Role of Experience in Work and Learning among Design Engineers
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Collin, Kaija – International Journal of Training and Development, 2004
Taking an approach to learning in the workplace as a phenomenon situated and accumulated in the course of work activities and everyday practice, the purpose of this study was to investigate how workers (development engineers and designers) themselves perceive the role of experience in work and learning. The empirical material consists of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Experiential Learning, Adult Learning, Education Work Relationship