Overview
- Provides a general approach to analyse and elaborate on learning processes within work environments
- Presents competing theoretical and methodological approaches to exploring workplace learning
- Collates recent empirical research on professional learning within the scientific community
- Offers a compact outline of research on professional and workplace learning
Part of the book series: Professional and Practice-based Learning (PPBL, volume 9)
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This book analyses and elaborates on learning processes within work environments and explores professional learning. It presents research indicating general characteristics of the work environment that support learning, as well as barriers to workplace learning. Themes of professional development, lifelong learning and business organisation emerge through the chapters and contributions explore theoretical and empirical analyses on the boundary between working and learning in various contexts and with various methodological approaches.
Readers will discover how current workplace learning approaches can emphasise the learning potential of the work environment and how workplaces can combine the application of competence that is working, with its acquisition or learning. Through these chapters, we learn about the educational challenge to design workplaces as environments of rich learning potential without neglecting business demands.
Expert authors explore how learning and working are both to be considered as two common aspects of an individual’s activity. Complexity, significance, integrity and variety of assigned work tasks as well as scope of action, interaction and feedback within its processing, turn out to be crucial work characteristics, amongst others revealed in these chapters.
Part of the Professional and Practice-based Learning series, this book will appeal to anyone with an interest in workplaces as learning environments: those within government, community or business agencies and within the research communities in education, psychology, sociology and business management will find it of great interest.
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Analytic Perspective 1 – Learning in Work Context
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Front Matter
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Analytic Perspective 2 – Work as Learning Environment
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Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Discourses on Professional Learning
Book Subtitle: On the Boundary Between Learning and Working
Editors: Christian Harteis, Andreas Rausch, Jürgen Seifried
Series Title: Professional and Practice-based Learning
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7012-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7011-9Published: 31 July 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0678-8Published: 27 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7012-6Published: 30 June 2014
Series ISSN: 2210-5549
Series E-ISSN: 2210-5557
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 395
Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Professional & Vocational Education, Lifelong Learning/Adult Education, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Human Resource Management, Learning & Instruction