Understanding Learning at WorkDavid Boud, John Garrick Routledge, 12. 10. 2012 - 256 strán (strany) Work now invariably requires a continual focus on learning: to improve productivity, to enhance the flexibility of employees and to develop and transform organizations. This volume brings together leading experts from the United States, Britain, Australia and New Zealand to critically evaluate the current debates on workplace learning and to propose directions for future developments in both research and practice. Topics covered include: * expectations of learning at work into the twenty-first century |
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... chapter provides readers with an orientation to the influences of workplace sociology on learning. Ronald Barnett (Chapter 3) comments incisively on the current context of learning in society and identifies a key feature of the present ...
... chapter argues a case for moving beyond formulae for learning towards conceptions which are contextually sensitive, pragmatic and strategic. This part concludes with Belinda Probert's examination of the ways that learning can be shaped ...
... (Chapter 12) takes as his theme. He examines the current international position in competency-based training and education, including the role of competency-based assessment, in workplace learning. He highlights the tensions which exist ...
... chapter explores the transformations that have occurred in work since the advent of what is popularly called the computer revolution, the Information Age, or more theoretically, post-industrial society. It examines the ways in which ...
... chapter includes both traditional domains of work including blue-, pink-1 and white-collar work in manufacturing, offices and services (transport, hospitals, retail, etc.), by no means only socalled 'masculinist' blue-collar work, as ...