Overview
- Clarifies the theoretical discussions on agency in work contexts
- Provides an overview over the current methodological approaches
- Integrates a range of different concepts related to work agency
Part of the book series: Professional and Practice-based Learning (PPBL, volume 20)
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Conceptual and Theoretical Issues
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Empirical and Methodological Issues
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About this book
The present book collects, integrates, and discusses the range of perspectives and discourses on agency at work. In addition, the book compiles the empirical research that has been generated by various perspectives. The chapters deal with the relationship between (a) agency at work, and (b) professional learning and development. They encompass a wide variety of working life domains and/or contexts, and are based on a broad range of epistemological and theoretical standpoints.
This volume is not only thought to bring together current research, but also to foster the contemporary discourse on workplace agency a few steps further. Although the book strongly focuses on research originating in the field of workplace learning, its contents may be of interest to researchers from other scientific domains, such as socio-cognitive and development psychology, organisational behaviour, leadership, economics, life-course research, and philosophy.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Agency at Work
Book Subtitle: An Agentic Perspective on Professional Learning and Development
Editors: Michael Goller, Susanna Paloniemi
Series Title: Professional and Practice-based Learning
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60943-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-60942-3Published: 14 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86964-3Published: 18 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-60943-0Published: 06 September 2017
Series ISSN: 2210-5549
Series E-ISSN: 2210-5557
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 484
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Lifelong Learning/Adult Education, Professional & Vocational Education, Industrial and Organizational Psychology