Offers a perspective on "techne" that respects the formative--not professional--situation of technical writing students and emphasizes the importance for technical writers to attend to history, artistry, and well-developed social relations in their work. Offers historically grounded, creative meditations on "techne" that…

Describes an effort to attack a regional workplace illiteracy problem with a community-based needs assessment. Indicates that the needs assessment will be effective if it (1) emphasizes the social and economic effects of illiteracy, (2) explicitly links illiteracy to its regional effects, and (3) is accomplished within the time and funding…

Workplace literacy discourses have become institutionalized and are not critically examined. Workplace literacy has been socially constructed into a dominant discourse that offers limited understanding of work and literacy and strengthens existing power relations. (SK)

Describes a customized tutoring program devised for a manufacturing industry worker. Identifies the following keys to success: negotiating course content and structure, ensuring transfer of skills between work and home, and maintaining a relaxed learning environment. (SK)

Considers the need for information literacy in the workplace and discusses ways to achieve it. Highlights include using a systems approach to information literacy education; technology-based learning systems; assessment through technology-based interactive systems; and knowledge management support systems. (LRW)

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to argue that foundational terms in work-learning research, specifically "learning", "work", and "workplace", are inherently complex and contested as the same as their scope has expanded in different fields to elide various conceptual categories and theoretical positions. Yet…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between self-directed learning readiness (SDLR) of business students in Germany and the USA and their attitudes towards information sharing and to ascertain implications for workplace learning. Design/methodology/approach: This empirical study used a survey research design.…

Describes a successful workplace literacy program necessitated by increased skill requirements of employees. Discusses mistakes as well as good decisions. (JOW)

Examines three work sites employing deaf individuals (graduates of Gallaudet University), investigating how much time deaf adults spend reading and writing on the job; what types of reading and writing activities they engage in; how deaf employees communicate with their hearing supervisors/co-workers; and what their perceptions are of literacy…

Uses data from the National Adult Literacy Survey to examine the relationship of literacy practices at school and at work with document literacy. Finds that the workplace (1) can be an alternative and/or compensatory learning environment for some skills; and (2) may be a preferred setting for learning for some individuals or for some tasks. (SR)

Looks at functions of literacy in a meeting intended for public presentation practice for front-line workers at a high-tech workplace. Examines social roles workers took on and how those roles recruited various uses of literacy. Notes how one employee commandeered this practice session to demonstrate how he had used literacy to resist authority…

Documents a workplace literacy program for people with disabilities in Australia. Activities include rewriting government service standards into plain English, formulating individualized employment plans, conducting a skills audit, and focusing on numeracy needs. (SK)

This article focuses on the theories and study of organizational and workplace learning. It outlines the landscape of learning in co-configuration settings, a new type of work that includes interdependency between multiple producers forming a strategic alliance, supplier network, or other such pattern of partnership which collaboratively puts…

Workplace education's interest in spirituality is examined, with an emphasis placed on why this interest might be increasing and what challenges it presents. This article interrogates commonplace strategies to integrate spirituality in workplace education,--providing holistic education, creating sacred spaces and mentoring--questions each approach…

This article explores the connections between literacy, economy, and place through an examination of labor market intermediaries (LMIs). In particular, the article addresses the shifting role of LMIs over the past thirty years in Lake County, Indiana, and how they have developed as literacy sponsors. The article looks beyond the boundaries of…