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The Value of Informal Workplace Learning for Police Education Teachers' Professional Development
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Holmgren, Robert; Sjöberg, David – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore Swedish police education teachers' informal workplace learning and its perceived value for their professional development. Two categories of teachers, police teachers and university teachers, with different professional knowledge and experience, work together at the police education unit.…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Workplace Learning, Police Education, Faculty Development
Teachers' Problem-Solving Skills in Technology-Rich Environments: A Call for Workplace Learning and Opportunities to Develop Professionally
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De Wever, Bram; Hämäläinen, Raija; Nissinen, Kari; Mannonen, Joonas; Van Nieuwenhove, Lisse – Studies in Continuing Education, 2023
This study focuses on the problem solving skills in technology-rich environments of teachers. PIAAC (Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies) data on adults' (n = 11,294) competencies, is used to investigate how problem solving skills of teachers are associated with sociodemographic, work-related, and everyday-life related…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teachers, Problem Solving, Skills
Communicative Learning Spaces and Learning to Become a Teacher
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Sjølie, Ela; Francisco, Susanne; Langelotz, Lill – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2019
This paper explores teacher learning. It focuses on access to 'communicative learning spaces' (a concept we coin and develop within this paper) and argues that the creation of such spaces can be a powerful enabler of teacher learning. We draw on the findings from three studies conducted in three different countries - Norway, Australia and Sweden.…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Teacher Education Programs, Beginning Teachers, Professional Continuing Education
VET Teachers between School and Working Life: Boundary Processes Enabling Continuing Professional Development
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Andersson, Per; Köpsén, Susanne – Journal of Education and Work, 2019
Changes in working life require development in vocational education and training (VET) to retain industrial currency. VET teachers are key actors in VET, and their continuing professional development (CPD) in vocational subjects is central to the currency of VET. This study is situated in Sweden, with a mainly school-based VET system where VET…
Descriptors: Vocational Education Teachers, Vocational Education, Education Work Relationship, Workplace Learning
Integrating Syrian Refugee Teachers into Swedish Educational Labour Market -- Reflections on a Fast Track Design
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Economou, Catarina; Hajer, Maaike – Education Inquiry, 2019
In autumn 2016, Malmö University started two "fast track" trajectories for teachers with refugee backgrounds. The participants were offered an education of 26 weeks as an introduction to the Swedish school system, consisting of content courses, professional Swedish and workplace learning. The aim of this small explorative study was to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, Cultural Background, Workplace Learning
Learning Gaps in a Learning Organization: Professionals' Values versus Management Values
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Parding, Karolina; Abrahamsson, Lena – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2010
Purpose: The aim of this article is to challenge the concept of "the learning organization" as unproblematic and inherently good. Design/methodology/approach: The research looked at how teachers--as an example of public sector professionals in a work organization that claims to be a learning organization--view their conditions for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Workplace Learning, Secondary School Teachers, Teaching Conditions