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Francisco, Susanne; Boud, David – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2023
Those entering a new workplace often come with knowledge and skills relevant to the job they are employed to do; however, there will be site-based practices that they are unfamiliar with. Most of the learning about 'how we do things around here' occurs after a new role is commenced. This is certainly the case with novice Vocational Education and…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Vocational Education Teachers, Beginning Teachers, Influences
Bruce, Bertram C. – Schools: Studies in Education, 2023
We have elaborate systems of formal instruction--schools, universities, and training institutes--all to facilitate learning within the walls. At the same time, there are ample opportunities for learning in the wild--in nature, libraries, and museums, online, in play and work, and through daily interaction with others. But the potential for…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Outdoor Education, Democracy, Futures (of Society)
Lindsay Malone; Aidan Mahon – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2023
This paper explores the Centre for Insurance, Risk and Data Analytics Studies (CIRDAS) as a case study of online adult education which offers flexible upskilling and reskilling opportunities to employees across the Irish insurance sector. It explores how CIRDAS's agile programme development enabled flexible entry, exit and progression routes for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Lifelong Learning, Electronic Learning, Adult Education
Wickramasinghe, Vathsala; Ramanathan, Udayabanu – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present the findings of a study that investigated workplace learning activities and drivers that enhanced learning as experienced by employees in Sri Lanka. Design/methodology/approach: This study was conducted in the knowledge process outsourcing sector, where employees perform knowledge work in flatter…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Workplace Learning, Learning Activities, Employees
Welton, Michael – International Journal of Adult Education and Technology, 2022
Drawing on the seminal works of Jurgen Habermas, Axel Honneth, Andre Gorz, and Shoshana Zuboff, this article searches in the Marxian tradition for clues to assert claims that the struggle for an emancipatory consciousness and practices must include the workplace. This article examines the kind of arguments that might open the way to reclaim the…
Descriptors: Marxian Analysis, Work Environment, Workplace Learning, Transformative Learning
Nykänen, Mikko; Kurki, Anna-Leena; Airila, Auli – Vocations and Learning, 2022
The aim of this mixed-method pilot study was to expand the understanding of potential methods to support collaboration between vocational schools and workplaces and to enhance workplace guidance processes. Specifically, we evaluated whether a Cultural-historical Activity theory-based intervention program could have beneficial effects on…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Workplace Learning, Intervention, Vocational Education Teachers
Deas, Kerry M.; Mina, Ruben – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2022
As the country continues to reckon with the historical and present-day realities of systemic oppression, particularly as it impacts Black individuals and communities, it is critical that human service organizations advance beyond statements condemning forms of anti-Black racism. Institutional efforts to address anti-Black racism must embody…
Descriptors: Human Services, Intersectionality, Racism, Blacks
Montuori, Luke M.; Montefiori, Lara – Journal of Intelligence, 2022
For decades, the field of workplace selection has been dominated by evidence that cognitive ability is the most important factor in predicting performance. Meta-analyses detailing the contributions of a wide-range of factors to workplace performance show that cognitive ability's contribution is partly mediated by the learning of task-relevant…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Cognitive Ability, Job Performance, Psychometrics
Anselmann, Sebastian – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2022
Purpose: The aim of this study is to unveil how professional trainers and training managers describe the learning conditions of their workplaces, what informal and formal learning activities they intend to accomplish and what barriers to learning at work they encounter. Design/methodology/approach: Barriers to learning in the workplace fall under…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Job Training, Trainers, Work Environment
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
David C. Lauer – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation seeks to understand the ways in which software developers and managers of software developers perceive workplace learning for software developers. Across three studies, researchers investigated: perceptions of software developers about workplace learning for software developers, perceptions of managers of software developers…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Computer Software, Administrator Attitudes, Business
Jennifer Jacobs; Rebecca W. Burns; Samantha Haraf; Jennifer McCorvey – Journal of School Leadership, 2024
To address the inequities within the educational system, there are calls for teachers to have an intentional focus on equity. Unfortunately, teachers often do not receive enough preparation within their certification programs or during in-service trainings to center equity- driven practices. This study provided insight into the features that one…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Faculty Development, Teacher Leadership, Peer Teaching
Aaron Bezzina; Erin D. Clarke; Lee Ashton; Trent Watson; Carole L. James – Health Education & Behavior, 2024
The workplace has been highlighted as a potential setting to deliver health promotion programs to target modifiable health behaviors that contribute to chronic disease. This review evaluated the effectiveness of interventions implemented within the workplace that targeted either smoking, nutrition, alcohol, physical activity, and/or overweight and…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Health Promotion, Smoking, Nutrition
Tabea Augner; Carsten C. Schermuly; Franziska Jungmann – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2024
Purpose: Today's unpredictable and fast-changing work environment challenges researchers and organizations to rethink learning. In contrast to traditional learning designs, new learning frameworks such as agile learning are more learner centered, integrated into the workplace and socially shaped. The purpose of this study is to examine Working Out…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Learning Strategies, Workplace Learning, Personal Autonomy
Paul Lyons – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2024
Purpose: The purpose of this paper, intended primarily for practitioners, is to demonstrate how features of psychological capital (PsyCap) may be combined with manager efforts to collaborate with an employee on an action learning project. In reciprocal action learning, manager and employee create a partnership to learn, achieve work-focused goals…
Descriptors: Employees, Cooperation, Administrators, Supervisor Supervisee Relationship