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Understanding Learning at Work »

Authors: David Boud (Editor), John Garrick
ISBN-13: 9780415182294, ISBN-10: 0415182298
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: March 1999
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: David Boud

Book Synopsis

This volume brings together leading experts from the United States, Britain, Australia and New Zealand to critically evaluate the current debate on workplace learning, and to propose directions for future developments in both research and practise.

Booknews

In 14 papers, predominantly Australian contributors consider the changing context of workplace learning; diverse perspectives on learning and work (e.g. finding a good theory, the new organic management, gendered); issues in practice (culture and difference, technologizing equity, competency-based learning); and futures. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

	List of illustrations
	List of contributors
1	Understandings of workplace learning	1
Pt. I	Context	13
2	The changing contexts of work	15
3	Learning to work and working to learn	29
Pt. II	Perspectives	45
4	New dimensions in the dynamics of learning and knowledge	47
5	Finding a good theory of workplace learning	65
6	Past the guru and up the garden path: the new organic management learning	83
7	Gender workers and gendered work: implications for women's learning	98
Pt. III	Issues in practice	117
8	Culture and difference in workplace learning	119
9	Technologising equity: the politics and practices of work-related learning	132
10	Guided learning at work	151
11	Is learning transferable?	165
12	Competency-based learning: a dubious past - an assured future?	180
Pt. IV	Futures	197
13	Envisioning new organisations for learning	199
14	The dominant discourses of learning at work	216
	Index	232