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Learning in the Workplace: Strategies for Effective Practice »
Authors: Stephen Billett
ISBN-13: 9781865083643, ISBN-10: 186508364X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Allen & Unwin Pty., Limited
Date Published: July 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Stephen Billett
Stephen Billett is senior lecturer in the School of Vocational, Technology and Arts Education at Griffith University and former director of the Centre for Learning and Work Research.
Book Synopsis
A guide to getting the most out of “on-the-job” learning for human resource practitioners and managers in organizations of all sizes.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | ||
| Tables and figures | ||
| Glossary | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| Workplace learning: Interest and ambivalence | 1 | |
| Key Premises | 6 | |
| Structure of the book | 8 | |
| Pt. I | Understanding workplaces as learning environments | |
| 1 | Working and learning | 13 |
| 2 | Expertise at work | 41 |
| 3 | Learning vocational expertise at work | 67 |
| Pt. II | Guided learning at work: A curriculum for the workplace | |
| 4 | A workplace curriculum model | 103 |
| 5 | Guided learning at work | 140 |
| 6 | Organizing and managing workplace learning | 175 |
| App. 1 | Items to identify the pathway from peripheral to full participation | 197 |
| App. 2 | Activities in the salon - who does what? | 198 |
| App. 3 | Identifying the learning pathways and tasks that are difficult to lean (an example from a manufacturing plant) | 199 |
| References | 201 | |
| Index | 216 |
Subjects
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Careers & Employment Careers & Employment
Business Books Human Resources Employees - Training
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