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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... relationship between workplace learning and other forms of life-long education; • international developments in competency-based approaches to learning and assessment; • the influence of language, power, culture and gender upon the ...
... relationship between industries and education but also unions and governments. The agendas of all these parties in the contemporary economic climate favour forms of knowledge which are 'useful' in which a key question about employees is ...
... relationship to civil society. While much of the current rhetoric about lifelong learning is part of an economic agenda, there are quite distinct threads which see learning at work as a part of general education for citizenship and ...
... relationships of theory/practice, mind/body, work/learning are, however, being actively explored and contested. While it has always been recognised that learning at work is required in order to do the jobs that are found there, in the ...
... relationships to work in adult life. This 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 ...