Improving Workplace Learning by Teaching Literature

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

   • Christine Angela Eastman

   Pages 1-10

3. Opening up a World of Literature at Toshiba

   • Christine Angela Eastman

   Pages 11-33

4. The Quest for Leadership at Wembley Stadium

   • Christine Angela Eastman

   Pages 35-56

5. Halifax: The Cornerstone of Learning

   • Christine Angela Eastman

   Pages 57-82

6. Sofra Restaurant Group: The Untold Stories

   • Christine Angela Eastman

   Pages 83-97

7. Developing Criticality Through Reading Novels

   • Christine Angela Eastman

   Pages 99-117

This book investigates the integration of literary writing into work based or business writing.  It proposes ways of how to help people with considerable work experience use literature to engage with the problems they face in their work.  Many people like to read for pleasure, but their skills in reading could always be improved. This book makes an original contribution to the fields of education, work based learning and business by encouraging students to explore history, memoir, fiction, and non-fiction to model their own writing and widen their knowledge beyond the work place and their customary reading. Inside are onsite experiments with fiction and non-fiction prose that show how people in the workplace respond and grow from contact with significant literature and culture that relates broadly to their work. As a Coaching Master’s student observes:

“I have notbeen a prolific reader. It has been a weakness and a gap.  I have probably read more in the last year [during the project course] than I have read in the past twenty years. So that says something. My ability to attend to what in a book has weight or relevance has markedly improved. In the past I banked largely on my opinions because not being a prolific reader, I had to. It can be incredibly empowering to see that there are so many assets outside of my own mind.  When something comes up now, I tend to weigh it. I am more specific about how I use words.”

• Communication skills
• Professional education
• Professional knowledge
• Professional knowledge
• Professional learning
• Reflective intelligence
• Reflective practice
• Reflective wisdom
• Studying rhetoric
• Teaching English literature
• Teaching humanities
• Teaching rhetoric
• Workbased curriculum
• Workbased learning
• Workplace learning
• Writing skills
• learning and instruction

• Hendon, London, United Kingdom

  Christine Angela Eastman

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