Overview
- Uses case studies to demonstrate how arts, literature and philosophy foster problem solving as well as divergent and dialectical thinking
- Offers specific techniques on how to integrate academic research and business concerns
- Provides innovative approaches to improving writing and other communication skills
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Keywords
- 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
About this book
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.”
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Improving Workplace Learning by Teaching Literature
Book Subtitle: Towards Wisdom
Authors: Christine Angela Eastman
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29028-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-29026-3Published: 26 April 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-29028-7Published: 19 April 2016
Series ISSN: 2211-1921
Series E-ISSN: 2211-193X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 117
Topics: Professional & Vocational Education, Learning & Instruction, Creativity and Arts Education