Learning, Work and Practice: New Understandings

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction: Thinking About Work in Work Based Learning

   • Paul Gibbs

   Pages 1-5

3. Part I

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7

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4. Section one

   1. The Workplace as a Site of Learning: Reflections on the Conceptual Relationship Between Workplace and Learning

      • Christopher Winch

      Pages 9-19

   2. The Role of On-the-Job and Off-the-Job Provision in Vocational Education and Training

      • Gerard Lum

      Pages 21-32

   3. Tacit Knowledge and the Labour Process

      • Theodore Lewis

      Pages 33-50

   4. Workplace Identity, Transition and the Role of Learning

      • Geoffrey Hinchliffe

      Pages 51-66

5. Part II

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67

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6. Section two

   1. Ontological Distinctiveness and the Emergence of Purposes

      • David Beckett

      Pages 69-83

   2. Practice as a Key Idea in Understanding Work-Based Learning

      • Paul Hager

      Pages 85-103

7. Part III

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105

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8. Section three

   1. Aristotelian Gnoseology and Work-Based Learning

      • Marianna Papastephanou

      Pages 107-119

   2. Working Our Way Through Murky Coordinates: Philosophy in Support of Truth Processes

      • Kent den Heyer

      Pages 121-128

   3. The Language of Knowledge Generation in Practice

      • Kevin J. Flint

      Pages 129-145

   4. An Epistemology of the Hand: Putting Pragmatism to Work

      • Svend Brinkmann, Lene Tanggaard

      Pages 147-163

   5. Pragmatism, Meaning and Learning in the Workplace

      • Paul Gibbs

      Pages 165-175

9. Part IV

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 177-177

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10. Section four

    1. Foucault and Work-Based Research Ethics: Revisiting Some Issues

       • Michalinos Zembylas

       Pages 179-189

    2. Communitarian Ethics and Work-Based Education: Some African Perspectives

       • Thaddeus Metz

       Pages 191-206

    3. Islamic Perspectives on Work-Based Learning

       • Mesut Akdere, Jackleen M. Salem

       Pages 207-217

This book’s original contribution to a crowded literature on work and learning will attract strong international interest. Its focus on the philosophy of learning at work brings a fresh perspective on a topic normally viewed through psychological, anthropological and sociological eyes. It assembles a host of internationally recognized scholars who reflect on the various philosophies of work-based learning. Full of distinctive and original contributions that provide perceptive insights into the subject, the work will be a practical support to teachers, trainers and researchers at the same time as it gives readers a clear philosophical grounding in learning at work. It is, however, not simply a book about philosophy, but a gazetteer of approaches to education in work that will sustain and inspire those who provide, engage in, and support the learning of new knowledge and skills in the workplace. With adaptability to new employment opportunities so vital to existing workers, the authors stand behind continued provision of work-based learning in the face of tightening economic constraints.

• Aristotle
• Badiou
• Dewey
• Foucault
• Heidegger
• capability
• philosophy of education
• practice-based learning
• professional education
• professional learning
• vocational education
• work based studies
• workplace diversity
• workplace learning

• , Institute for Work Based Learning, Middlesex University, London, United Kingdom

  Paul Gibbs

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