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The Cross-School Teacher Team as a Site for Learning
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Cederlund, Katarina – Education Inquiry, 2018
In policy and in initiatives from the Swedish National Agency for Education for enhancing professional development, there is currently a strong emphasis on teachers´ collaborative professional development. As previous research suggests that teachers may need to engage in various types of collaboration for learning, extended knowledge on different…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Faculty Development, Foreign Countries, Work Experience Programs
Continuing Professional Development: Pedagogical Practices of Interprofessional Simulation in Health Care
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Nyström, Sofia; Dahlberg, Johanna; Edelbring, Samuel; Hult, Håkan; Abrandt Dahlgren, Madeleine – Studies in Continuing Education, 2017
The increasing complexity of health care practice makes continuing professional development (CPD) essential for health care professionals. Simulation-based training is a CPD activity that is often applied to improve interprofessional collaboration and the quality of care. The aim of this study is to explore simulation as a pedagogical practice for…
Descriptors: Allied Health Personnel, Health Services, Professional Development, Simulation
Teamwork on the Line Can Pay Off down the Line
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Lantz, Annika – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2011
Purpose: Employees' work in innovation processes generates ideas, but more often it serves to create conditions so that new products or services can be effectively produced or delivered. Self-organizational activities involve proactively handling new possibilities, unexpected situations, problems or tasks. The aim of this paper is to provide…
Descriptors: Evidence, Innovation, Group Dynamics, Job Analysis
Accelerating and Braking in Times of Economic Crisis: Organisational Learning in a Top Management Team
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Wallo, Andreas; Kock, Henrik; Nilsson, Peter – European Journal of Training and Development, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this article is to present the results of a study of an industrial company's top management team (TMT) that fought to survive an economic crisis. Specifically, the article seeks to focus on describing the TMT's composition, group processes, and work during a period of high external pressure; analysing the TMT's work in…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Learning Processes, Group Dynamics, Strategic Planning
From a "University Agenda" to a "Collaborative Agenda"--An Inquiry into a Tendency in Swedish Higher Education
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Sandberg, Hakan – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2008
The aim of this paper is to focus on the development of HE/CE in Sweden as a transition from a non-academic context to an academic context and a current trend back to a non-academic context considering the nature of the transitions, facilitating factors in these processes and consequences of the transitions. Generally health professional higher…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Physicians, Continuing Education, Labor Market
Job Design for Learning in Work Groups
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Lantz, Annika; Brav, Agneta – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2007
Purpose--What is required of job design and production planning, if they are to result in a work group taking a self-starting approach and going beyond what is formally required of it? This paper aims to contribute to group research by testing a theoretical model of relations between job design on the one hand (captured as completeness, demand on…
Descriptors: Manufacturing Industry, Task Analysis, Learning Processes, Foreign Countries