Overview
- Forges much-needed links between theory and practice in business education
- A vital exploration of ways to facilitate ongoing workplace learning
- Explores the links between formal education and lifelong learning in the professions
- Assesses methods of fostering self-regulated learning
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Advances in Business Education and Training (ABET, volume 4)
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Core concepts in education are changing. For example, professional performance or expertise is not uniquely the fruit of specialist knowledge acquired at professional schools, but the sum of influences exerted by a complex web of continuous learning opportunities for which an individual is well (or ill) prepared by their schools and their workplace. The key contributory factors to professional expertise are how professional schools connect to professional practice, how schools prepare graduates for continuous learning, and how the workplace endorses continuous development. Thus, the question this volume addresses—how to design learning and working environments that facilitate the integration of these three elements—is at the heart of contemporary pedagogical theory. The authors also ask a second vital question: how do we educate learners that go on to maximize their life’s learning opportunities by regulating their own ongoing learning?
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Learning at the Crossroads of Theory and Practice argues that with the theory of learning at a crossroads, this is an unprecedented opportunity for learning about learning. The book sheds light on different elements of this challenge: integrating theory and practice in business education, generating and fully exploiting workplace learning opportunities, and enriching our classrooms by coupling theoretical knowledge with the richness of real-life experience.
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Keywords
- business education
- curriculum development
- design educational environments
- design learning environments
- design work environments
- educate learners
- higher education
- how professional schools connect to professional practice
- how schools prepare graduates for continuous learning
- how the workplace endorses continuous development
- practical knowledge and experience
- professional performance
- remedial education
- theoretical knowledge
- workplace learning
- learning and instruction
Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Integrating Theory and Practice in Business Education
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Workplace Learning
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Learning at the Crossroads of Theory and Practice
Book Subtitle: Research on Innovative Learning Practices
Editors: Piet Van den Bossche, Wim H. Gijselaers, Richard G. Milter
Series Title: Advances in Business Education and Training
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2846-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature B.V. 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-2845-5Published: 21 March 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8476-4Published: 16 April 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-2846-2Published: 19 March 2012
Series ISSN: 2543-0637
Series E-ISSN: 2543-0645
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 252
Topics: Professional & Vocational Education, Higher Education, Learning & Instruction, Educational Technology, Curriculum Studies