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Wegener, Charlotte; Tanggaard, Lene – Studies in Continuing Education, 2013
This article investigates the innovation concept in two key welfare areas where the demands for innovation are substantial, namely vocational education and elder care. On the basis of ethnographic fieldwork and interviews on the collaboration between an educational institution and elder care services, the article develops a tripartite empirical…
Descriptors: Schools, Innovation, Vocational Education, Work Environment
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Ha, Tak S. – Studies in Continuing Education, 2008
This paper describes a research project investigating the workplace learning experience of information technology (IT) workers in Hong Kong. The research project explored in depth the workplace learning experiences of 65 IT workers from three different work sites. It went beyond the identification of workplace learning methods and resources…
Descriptors: Research Projects, Information Technology, Learning Processes, Foreign Countries
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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