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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... role in fostering learning. The future of enterprises and the agendas of educational institutions are becoming intimately linked within the present reconceptualisation of work and learning. Today we see employees extending their ...
... role of competency-based approaches are considered. The centrality of language, cultural understandings and discourses of learning at work are teased out by Nicky Solomon (Chapter 8) and Elaine Butler (Chapter 9). In these chapters ...
... role of competency-based assessment, in workplace learning. He highlights the tensions which exist between assessment for accreditation and the needs of productivity, and the vital importance of viewing 'competence' as an holistic ...
... role of production and work in social organisation and in individual identity formation. People today continue significantly to define themselves, and are socially defined, by the type of work that they do. In advanced industrial ...
... role of skill and the experience of skilled workers in heavy industry and manufacturing. Eventually attention was also drawn to similar trends of skill changes in office work (e.g. Dy 1990, Garson 1988, Hartmann 1987, Wright 1987). The ...