Discourses on Professional Learning - On the Boundary Between Learning and Working (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Professional and Practice-based Learning, 9
Release date:	September 2016
First published:	2014
Editors:	Christian Harteis • Andreas Rausch • Jürgen Seifried
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	395
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014
ISBN-13:	978-9402406788
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General Books > Business & Economics > General
LSN:	9402406786
Barcode:	9789402406788

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