Research Approaches on Workplace Learning

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Individual Level

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Agency: Taking Stock of Workplace Learning Research

      • Michael Goller, Susanna Paloniemi

      Pages 3-28

   3. Professional Identity in Changing Workplaces: Why It Matters, When It Becomes Emotionally Imbued, and How to Support Its Agentic Negotiations

      • Katja Vähäsantanen

      Pages 29-46

   4. Research on Individual Learning from Errors in the Workplace – A Literature Review and Citation Analysis

      • Andreas Rausch, Johannes Bauer, Michael Graf

      Pages 47-75

   5. Pointing Out Conceptual and Measurement Issues in Studies on ‘Learning Motivation’ and ‘Training Motivation’ in Workplace Settings. A Literature Review

      • Nané Kochoian, Isabel Raemdonck, Mariane Frenay

      Pages 77-115

   6. Professional Vision at the Workplace Illustrated by the Example of Teachers: An Overview of Most Recent Research Methods and Findings

      • Irene T. Skuballa, Halszka Jarodzka

      Pages 117-136

   7. Professional Growth and Workplace Learning

      • Laura Pylväs, Junmin Li, Petri Nokelainen

      Pages 137-155

   8. Learning in and Through Work: Positioning the Individual

      • Stephen Billett

      Pages 157-175

3. Team Level

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 177-177

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   2. Looking Back and Ahead: A Social Network Perspective on Workplace Learning and Professional Development

      • Sara Van Waes, Kaisa Hytönen

      Pages 179-199

   3. Team Learning

      • Piet Van den Bossche, Catherine Gabelica, Mieke Koeslag-Kreunen

      Pages 201-218

   4. Self-Regulation of Professional Learning: Towards a New Era of Research

      • Maaike D. Endedijk, Katrien Cuyvers

      Pages 219-237

   5. Social Influences on Team Learning

      • Dominik Froehlich, Katerina Bohle Carbonell

      Pages 239-255

   6. Knowledge Creation in Teacher Teams

      • Crina Damşa

      Pages 257-279

   7. Advancing Research on Team Learning by Taking into Account Complexity, Dynamics and Context

      • Regina H. Mulder

      Pages 281-301

4. Organizational Level and Beyond

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 303-303

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   2. Assessment of Vocational Competences – Definitions, Issues and Quality Criteria

      • Viola Deutscher, Esther Winther

      Pages 305-320

   3. Technologies for Professional Learning

      • Allison Littlejohn, Viktoria Pammer-Schindler

      Pages 321-346

   4. Vocational Education and Training in Germany: Benefits and Drawbacks of the Dual Approach as Preparation for Professional Employment

      • Stefanie Zutavern, Jürgen Seifried

      Pages 347-365

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.

• new generation of researchers
• the team level of workplace learning
• individual level of workplace learning
• organizational level of workplace learning
• societal level of workplace learning
• interdependent cross-level research approaches
• Work Agency
• Work-life perspectives
• Team learning
• Team climate
• Social influences on team learning
• Knowledge construction in teams
• Learning culture
• Acknowledgement of competences
• Technology and professional learning
• Creation of a learning eco-system
• Diversity as a challenge for organisations
• Higher education as preparation for WPL
• Social support in networks and professional learning
• vocational and professional education

• Institute of Educational Science, Paderborn University, Paderborn, Germany

  Christian Harteis

• Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

  David Gijbels

• Training and Education Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

  Eva Kyndt

Christian Harteis is Full Professor of Educational Science and Educational Management at Paderborn University, Germany. His research focuses learning through and for work, professional development and research on expertise. He conducted various empirical studies in industrial and service enterprises and is currently member of an interdisciplinary Graduate School investigating human-centered approaches of digitalization of working life. Before taking the position at Paderborn university in 2010, he worked at the Universities of Regensburg, Ulm, and Bamberg. He acts as Editor-in-Chief for the journal Vocations and Learning. Studies in Vocational and Professional Education and is co-editor of this book series. Besides his scientific work, he likes all kinds of music, Bavarian cars, and he holds season tickets for Bayern München

Dr Eva Kyndt is Associate Professor Human Resource Development at the University of Antwerp (Department of Training and Education Sciences) in Belgium and Swinburne University of Technology (Centre for Transformative Innovation) in Melbourne, Australia. Her research focuses on the intersection between learning and working and includes topics such as the transition from education to work, workplace learning, sustainable careers, and social networks in organisations. She is currently the founding editor-in-chief of Teaching and Teacher Education: Leadership and Professional development.

Dr David Gijbels is Professor of Learning and Instruction in the Department of Training and Education Sciences at the faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Antwerp (Belgium).  He is spokesperson of the research group Edubron and co-founder of the Antwerp Social Lab. His research interests include student learning and assessment in higher and vocational education and the transition to the workplace.