Overview
- First volume to focus on the relationship between work, subjectivity and learning
- Addresses a growing field of interest in learning in and through practice
- Identifies models of practice-based learning that can be exercised within settings where professional practice occurs
- International contributions focussing on a range of workplace settings such as small and large business, new employees, older workers, self-employed workers
Part of the book series: Professional and Practice-based Learning (PPBL, volume 1)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
Keywords
- Trainig
- Transfer
- apprenticeship
- learning as practice
- learning from w
- learning through practice
- learning through work
- organization
- practice-based learning
- practice-based models of learning
- professional development
- professional learning
- professional practice
- workplace learning
- learning and instruction
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“Aim of this book is to provide an overview of how learning through practice can be conceptionalised, enacted and appraised. … Those who have tended to focus on teacher education as an example of workplace learning will find wide range of contexts discussed here to be stimulating.” (Michael Hammond, Teacher Development, October, 2011)Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Learning Through Practice
Book Subtitle: Models, Traditions, Orientations and Approaches
Editors: Stephen Billett
Series Title: Professional and Practice-based Learning
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3939-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-3938-5Published: 17 June 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3245-2Published: 05 September 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-3939-2Published: 02 June 2010
Series ISSN: 2210-5549
Series E-ISSN: 2210-5557
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 288
Topics: Professional & Vocational Education, Education, general, Management, Lifelong Learning/Adult Education, Learning & Instruction, Higher Education