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Direct linkBillett, Stephen; Newton, Jennifer; Ockerby, Cherene M. – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2010
When individuals select a particular occupation, they, their families and the community invest significant resources in their preparing for, learning about, and effective participation in that occupation. Yet, given the high attrition rates during that preparation and high levels of early separation from occupations, selection of occupations is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nursing, Career Choice, Nursing Students
Billett, Stephen – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2010
This article proposes lifelong learning as a socio-personal process and a personal fact. As such, it is conceptually distinct from an educational provision, which constitutes one kind of institutional fact. In making this distinction, this article seeks to elaborate a major flaw in the precepts for conceptualisation and enactment of the report…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Lifelong Learning, Adult Education, Adult Learning
Billett, Stephen – Vocations and Learning, 2008
Individuals' dispositions have long been held to direct and energise cognition in ways that shape how they experience and respond to events in the social world. Therefore, a consideration of these dispositions is likely to be helpful in understanding the inter-psychological processes between individual and social world that frame contemporary…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Workplace Learning, Cosmetology, Social Experience
Billett, Stephen – Mind, Culture, and Activity, 2006
A greater acknowledgment of relational interdependence between individual and social agencies is warranted within conceptions of learning throughout working life. Currently, some accounts of learning tend to overly privilege social agency in the form of situational contributions. This de-emphasises the contributions of the more widely socially…
Descriptors: Social Influences, Social Experience, Social Environment, Work Environment
Peer reviewedBillett, Stephen – Studies in Continuing Education, 2001
Learning throughout working life results from everyday thinking and acting, shaped by work practices. The quality of learning depends on the kinds of activities and interdependencies available. Individuals' ability to maintain vocational practice is shaped by their opportunities for engagement and interaction. (Contains 64 references.) (SK)
Descriptors: Individual Development, Interpersonal Relationship, Job Skills, Lifelong Learning
Billett, Stephen – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2004
This paper conceptualises a basis for understanding learning in workplaces. This comprises a duality between how access to workplace activities and guidance is afforded, on the one hand, and how workers elect to engage with what is afforded to them, on the other. This reciprocal basis for thinking, acting and learning is referred to as…
Descriptors: Work Environment, Social Science Research, Social Development, Work Attitudes
