Work now invariably requires a continual focus on learning: to improve productivity, to enhance the flexibility of employees and to develop and transform organizations. This volume brings together leading experts from the United States, Britain, Australia and New Zealand to critically evaluate the current debates on workplace learning and to propose directions for future developments in both research and practice. Topics covered include: * expectations of learning at work into the twenty-first century* learning theories, practice and performance implications* the relationship between workplace learning and other forms of lifelong learning* the international developments in competency-based approaches to learning and assessment* the influence of language, power, culture and gender upon the 'construction' of learning.Topical and informative, this volume will be an invaluable resource for students and researchers of training, HRD, continuing and adult education.
Author(s): David Boud
Edition: 1
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 256
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of illustrations......Page 8
List of contributors......Page 9
Understandings of workplace learning DAVID BOUD AND JOHN GARRICK......Page 12
Context......Page 24
The changing contexts of work CATHERINE CASEY......Page 26
Learning to work and working to learn RONALD BARNETT......Page 40
Perspectives......Page 56
New dimensions in the dynamics of learning and knowledge JUDITH H.MATTHEWS AND PHILIP C.CANDY......Page 58
Finding a good theory of workplace learning PAUL HAGER......Page 76
Past the guru and up the garden path: the new organic management learning DAVID BECKETT......Page 94
Gender workers and gendered work: implications for women's learning BELINDA PROBERT......Page 109
Issues in practice......Page 128
Culture and difference in workplace learning NICKY SOLOMON......Page 130
Technologising equity: the politics and practices of work-related learning ELAINE BUTLER......Page 143
Guided learning at work STEPHEN BILLETT......Page 162
Is learning transferable? MARK TENNANT......Page 176
Competency-based learning: a dubious past;an assured future? ANDREW GONCZI......Page 191
Futures......Page 208
Envisioning new organisations for learning VICTORIA J.MARSICK AND KAREN E.WATKINS......Page 210
The dominant discourses of learning at work JOHN GARRICK......Page 227
Index......Page 243
