This publication is part of the study materials for the distance education course, Adults Learning: The Changing Workplace A, in the Open Campus Program at Deakin University. The first part of the document examines the roles, skills, and methods used by facilitators of workplace learning in light of a social action view of learning. The following topics are discussed: the nature of learning (the sociological and other perspectives); learning in the workplace and a new model for learning in the workplace: learning in and out of school); human resource development (the changing workplace context, current status of human resource development in the workplace, and human capital theory); and strategies for facilitating learning in the workplace (facilitation methods, facilitator skills, interpersonal helping skills, action science, and steps in the action science process). The bibliography contains 45 references. The following papers constitute approximately 60% of the document: "Learning in the Workplace: The Case for Reflectivity and Critical Reflectivity" (V. J. Marsick); "Human Resource Developers: Producing Unintended Consequences" (K. Watkins); "A Critical Definition of Adult Education" (S. D. Brookfield); and "The Facilitator's Role in Adult Learning" (S. D. Brookfield). Concluding the document is a nine-item annotated bibliography. (MN)