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Learning in the workplace : strategies for effective practice / Stephen Billett.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2001Description: xvii, 222 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 186508364X
  • 9781865083643
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 658.3124 21
LOC classification:
  • HD5715 .B55 2001
Online resources:
Contents:
Workplace learning: Interest and ambivalence -- Pt. I. Understanding workplaces as learning environments. 1. Working and learning. 2. Expertise at work. 3. Learning vocational expertise at work -- Pt. II. Guided learning at work: A curriculum for the workplace. 4. A workplace curriculum model. 5. Guided learning at work. 6. Organizing and managing workplace learning. App. 1. Items to identify the pathway from peripheral to full participation -- App. 2. Activities in the salon - who does what? -- App. 3. Identifying the learning pathways and tasks that are difficult to lean (an example from a manufacturing plant).
Summary: The workplace is now seen as an important learning environment, and businesses and government units are encouraged to become Learning Organisations. How does learning actually occur in the workplace? Billett analyses the strengths and limitations of on-the-job learning. A valuable reference for HR practitioners.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-215) and index.

Workplace learning: Interest and ambivalence -- Pt. I. Understanding workplaces as learning environments. 1. Working and learning. 2. Expertise at work. 3. Learning vocational expertise at work -- Pt. II. Guided learning at work: A curriculum for the workplace. 4. A workplace curriculum model. 5. Guided learning at work. 6. Organizing and managing workplace learning. App. 1. Items to identify the pathway from peripheral to full participation -- App. 2. Activities in the salon - who does what? -- App. 3. Identifying the learning pathways and tasks that are difficult to lean (an example from a manufacturing plant).

The workplace is now seen as an important learning environment, and businesses and government units are encouraged to become Learning Organisations. How does learning actually occur in the workplace? Billett analyses the strengths and limitations of on-the-job learning. A valuable reference for HR practitioners.

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