Workplace Perspectives On Education And Training

Author : P.B. Doeringer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789400981447

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Workplace Perspectives on Education and Training by P.B. Doeringer Pdf

Peter B. Doeringer Many of our approaches to education and training date back to the nine teenth and early twentieth centuries. Since that time, the skills and abilities demanded by the economy have undergone far greater change than have our training arrangements. Moreover, our ambitions for what can be ac complished through education and training policy have also increased. Not only do we expect that such policies should meet the skill needs of the na tion, but also we ask that they playa role in equalizing economic oppor tunity and in promoting greater well-being among workers. In accordance with its mandate to increase understanding of educational processes and educational policy, the National Institute of Education (NIB) sponsored a two-day workshop in June of 1979 to examine work place perspectives on education and training policy. The workshop brought together a group of employer and trade union representatives, education and training specialists, policy analysts, and government officials to discuss research and policy questions raised by training activities at the workplace. As one might expect, the discussion ranged widely and reflected many viewpoints on the relationship between education and work. Among the participants there was consensus neither as to what should be done nor 2 PETER B. DOER INGER even as to what were the most important gaps in our knowledge about the workings of the education and training system. The discussion was helpful, however, in drawing attention to the workplace as a significant and too often neglected component of this system.

Author : P B Doeringer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1981-03-31
Category : Employees
ISBN : 9400981457

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Workplace Perspectives on Education and Training by P B Doeringer Pdf

Author : Richard Cooney,Mark Stuart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415443340

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Trade Unions and Workplace Training by Richard Cooney,Mark Stuart Pdf

Trade Unions and Workplace Training examines the changing role of trade unions in the provision of vocational education, workplace training and skill development. It reflects upon: the role that unions have played in the reform of vocational education and training systems; the nature of union involvement in consultative mechanisms at a national and industry level; the nature of union involvement in skill formation at the workplace; and the development of mechanisms for the articulation of employee voice in the design, delivery and assessment of vocational training. The book provides a collection of studies of Canada, Australia, United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany and Norway by leading researchers in the field. Distinctive, accessible and original, all the chapters are written in a style that illustrates the relevance of academic debates and research data to practice and the book includes a number of the chapters written by trade union practitioners.

Author : Hans G. Schuetze,Robert Sweet
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0773524541

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Integrating School and Workplace Learning in Canada by Hans G. Schuetze,Robert Sweet Pdf

In response to concerns that the educational system - from public schools through colleges, universities, and apprenticeship programs - cannot adequately prepare students for work in the new economy, Integrating School and Workplace Learning in Canada proposes alternation - a hybrid form of learning that, by combining experiential and cognitive learning skills, allows individuals to develop the relevant skills and intellectual capabilities to address and solve complex problems encountered in the workplace. Alternation involves not only a curricular balance between the theoretical and the practical but also two distinct venues for learning - the classroom and the workplace. The authors discuss cognitive and social learning, its implementation in a variety of settings, its role in smoothing the school/work transition process, and its potential to contribute to the knowledge and skills needed by the workforce. They bring a wide range of disciplinary perspectives to bear in their analyses of the principles and practices of alternation, providing historical, theoretical, and practical insights. Their analysis contributes to and extends the current debate and discussion surrounding necessary changes in our education and training practices.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789087906450

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Emerging Perspectives of Workplace Learning by Anonim Pdf

Comprising 15 chapters the book offers perspectives from Finland, Germany, New Zealand and Australia and across a range of occupations and places of work. Individually and collectively these chapters make important contributions to learning about the self and agency at work and about learning work tasks.

Author : Talbot, Jon
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781522569787

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Global Perspectives on Work-Based Learning Initiatives by Talbot, Jon Pdf

The purpose of education has been debated in recent years, especially surrounding its curriculum and structure. In order to fully understand this discussion, the relationship between education and the labor market must be explored. Global Perspectives on Work-Based Learning Initiatives is a pivotal reference source that provides vital research on recent progress in selected countries across the globe in educational programs designed to better prepare students for the workforce through the use of work-related learning. While highlighting topics such as degree apprenticeships, integrated learning strategy, and economic development, this book is ideally designed for education administrators, professors, business and education professionals, academicians, researchers, and graduate-level students seeking current research on the relationship between the education and labor market.

Author : Christine R. Velde
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781402087547

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International Perspectives on Competence in the Workplace by Christine R. Velde Pdf

As the world’s economy develops into a more dynamic, fast-moving, and unpredictable entity, it is crucial that the workers who create wealth have the ability to assess and respond to new and unforeseen challenges. In other words, the future will require a more competent workforce. What, though, does this mean in practice? In this, the fully revised second edition of Christine Velde’s book, a variety of researchers from around the world provide a truly international perspective on the issue. They help to redefine the term competence. Rather than responding to challenges using a pre-existing set of skills, they see competence as having the ability to assess new situations, and then adapt one’s response accordingly, particularly in collaboration with others. Providing the reader with insightful perspectives about competence in different situations and contexts, the book’s sections explore the concept of competence in industry and vocational education, in schools and colleges, in small businesses and companies, and in universities. The interpretation, experience and teaching of competence in the workplace is boiled down to five essential components that in themselves represent an argument for a more holistic conception of competence. Velde herself concludes the book by synthesizing and reflecting on the contents. This book provides the reader with insightful perspectives on competence, and the characteristics of learning environments in different workplace contexts. Drawing on phenomenographic insights allows it to present a more enlightened view of competence, at the same time as opening up an international dialogue about the meaning and interpretation of competence in the workplace. Useful not only to educators and researchers, this volume will also assist leaders and managers in a variety of contexts to develop more meaningful workplaces.

Author : Roger Harris,Tom Short
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789814560580

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Workforce Development by Roger Harris,Tom Short Pdf

This book captures the essence of current workforce development perspectives and draws on extensive global research to uncover a range of issues confronting organisations. Taking primarily an Australian outlook after the global financial crisis and tracing the progress of a national industry sector, each chapter delves into a major area of interest for leaders. Overall, the authors make the case that workforce development is an amalgam of activities influenced by context, politics and economic development. As the world becomes increasingly connected and mobile, workforce development is proving to be a major activity for organisations because it impacts their longer-term survival and growth. To stay ahead, successful organisations focus on attracting, building, engaging and retaining talented people. However, in a financially turbulent era where strategy changes quickly, workforce development must not only plan and build the capabilities of people at work, but also contribute to making employment more socially sustainable for a better world. This book provides a thought-provoking collection of scholarly work for business leaders, human resource practitioners and academics working in adult education, business, psychology and social science disciplines. At the same time, it adopts an accessible style for students and others who want to know more about the development of people at work.

Author : Helen Rainbird
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Employees
ISBN : 0312235518

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Training in the Workplace by Helen Rainbird Pdf

This book offers a practical, experience-led approach on employee training while still maintaining a critical focus. The well-known contributors defeat the criticism that training is a 'dry' subject by focusing on the relevance of training to the workplace and the management of change.

Author : Keith Forrester,John Payne,Kevin Ward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UVA:X002647298

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Workplace Learning by Keith Forrester,John Payne,Kevin Ward Pdf

Author : Margaret Malloch,Len Cairns,Karen Evans,Bridget N O′Connor
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781446248416

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The SAGE Handbook of Workplace Learning by Margaret Malloch,Len Cairns,Karen Evans,Bridget N O′Connor Pdf

This Handbook provides a state-of-the art overview of the field of workplace learning from a global perspective. The authors are all well-placed theoreticians, researchers, and practitioners in this burgeoning field, which cuts across higher education, vocational education and training, post-compulsory secondary schooling, and lifelong education. The volume provides a broad-based, yet incisive analysis of the range of theory, research, and practical developments in workplace learning. The editors draw together the three essential areas of Theory; Research and Practice; and Issues and Futures in the field of Workplace Learning. In addition, final chapters include recommendations for further development. Key researchers and writers in the field have approached workplaces as the base of learning about work, that is, work-based learning. There has also been emerging interest in variations of this idea such as learning about, through, and at work. Many of the theoretical discussions have centred on adult learning and some on learners managing their own learning, with emphasis on aspects such as communities of practice and self directed learning. In Europe and Australia, early work in the field was often linked to the Vocational Education and Training (VET) traditions with concerns around skills, competencies and ′on the job′ learning. The idea that learning and workplaces had more to do with real lifelong and lifewide aspects than traditional "training" regimens has emerged in the last decade. Since the mid 1990s, the field has grown world-wide as an area of theory, research, and practical work that has not only expanded the interest but has also legitimized the area as a field of study, reflection, and progress. The SAGE Handbook of Workplace Learning draws together a wide range of views, theoretical dispositions, and assertions and provides a leading-edge presentation by key writers and researchers with insight into the field and its current state. It is a resource for researchers and academics interested in the scope and breadth of Workplace Learning..

Author : Olwen McNamara,Jean Murray,Marion Jones
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789400778269

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Workplace Learning in Teacher Education by Olwen McNamara,Jean Murray,Marion Jones Pdf

This book explores teacher workplace learning from four different perspectives: social policy, international comparators, multi-professional stances/perspectives and socio-cultural theory. First, it considers the policy and practice context of professional learning in teacher education in England, and the rest of the UK, with particular reference to professional masters level provision. The importance of teachers’ and schools’ perceptions of improvement, development and learning, and the inherent tensions between individual, school and government priorities is explored. Second, the book considers models of teacher workplace learning to be found in international research and practice to explore what perspective they can bring to understanding policy and practice relating to workplace learning in the UK. Third, it draws on cross-professional analysis to get an intellectual and theoretical purchase on workplace learning by examining how insights from across the professions can provide us with useful perspectives on policy and practice. The analysis draws particularly on insights from medicine and educational psychology. Fourth, the book cross-fertilises research and practice across the field of education by drawing on insights from perspectives such as socio-cultural and activity theory and situated learning/cognition to discover what they can offer in analysing the theoretical and pedagogic underpinnings of teacher workplace learning. In short, the book offers a number of contexts for exploring how best to conceptualise and theorise learning in the workplace in order to generate evidence to inform policy and practice and facilitates the development of a more theoretically informed and robust model of workplace learning and teaching.

Author : Sarah Leberman,Lex McDonald
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317013662

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The Transfer of Learning by Sarah Leberman,Lex McDonald Pdf

The book addresses a crucial issue for all involved in education and training: the transfer of learning to new and different contexts. Educators, employers and learners face the problem of ensuring that what is learnt in the classroom is able to be adapted and used in the workplace. It focuses on adult learners in professional and vocational contexts. The authors provide an accessible book on the transfer of learning which draws on multi-disciplinary perspectives from education, psychology and management. The Transfer of Learning will be useful both for postgraduate students and for practitioners wanting to deepen their understanding of transfer and for those interested in practical applications. It combines theory and practice from international research and the authors' own case studies of transfer involving learners engaged in professional development and study towards qualifications. Theories of adult learning, change and lifelong learning are discussed in relation to the transfer of learning. The purpose of this book is to emphasise to tertiary educators and trainers the importance of transfer and in doing so highlight the participants' voices as central foci in coming to an understanding of the process. By doing this it balances the literature which has to date emphasized transfer from a trainer's and/or organization's perspective. There has been little if any substantive material on tertiary transfer issues and yet demands are increasing for tertiary education providers to be more accountable and more focused on developing students' ability to use their learning in everyday work situations. The book is unique in that it adopts a phenomenological perspective and underscores the significance of the participants' voices in understanding issues.

Author : Christian Harteis,David Gijbels,Eva Kyndt
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030895822

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Research Approaches on Workplace Learning by Christian Harteis,David Gijbels,Eva Kyndt Pdf

The volume comprises a variety of research approaches that seek to explore and understand employees’ learning and development through and for work. Working life reveals challenges through technological, economic and societal development that can only rudimentarily be addressed by formal education and training. Workplace learning becomes more and more important for employees and enterprises to successfully cope with these challenges. Workplace learning is a steadily growing field of educational research but it lacks so far a scholastic canon – there is rather a diversity of research approaches. This volume reflects this diversity by bringing together researchers from different countries and different theoretical backgrounds, presenting their current research on topics that all are relevant for understanding presages, processes and outcomes of workplace learning. Hence, this volume is of relevance for researchers as well as practitioners in the field and policy makers.

Author : Lorna Unwin,Jerry Wellington
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135374785

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Young People's Perspectives on Education, Training and Employment by Lorna Unwin,Jerry Wellington Pdf

Based on interviews with over 150 young people in education and training, this volume reflects on their perspectives on the issues and challenges that education and training have to offer.