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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824056003321

Titolo

Working to learn : transforming learning in the workplace / / edited by Karen Evans, Phil Hodkinson, Lorna Unwin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, UK, : Kogan Page

Sterling, VA, : Stylus Pub., 2002

ISBN

0-85292-911-0

1-135-72612-4

0-585-44381-5

1-135-72613-2

1-280-06448-X

0-203-41716-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

x, 246 pages : ill

Altri autori (Persone)

EvansKaren <1949->

HodkinsonPhil

UnwinLorna

Disciplina

658.3124

Soggetti

Organizational learning

Communication in organizations

Employees - Training of

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: 1. The significance of workplace learning for a 'learning society' -- Karen Evans and Helen Rainbird -- 2. Learning careers: conceptualizing lifelong work-based learning -- Phil Hodkinson and Martin Bloomer -- 3. Contrasting approaches to the role of qualifications in the promotion of lifelong learning -- Michael Young -- 4. The interaction between qualifications and work-based learning -- Michael Eraut -- 5. The challenges of'making learning visible': problems and issues in recognizing tacit skills and key competences -- Karen Evans -- 6. Developing pedagogies for the contemporary workplace -- Alison Fuller and Lorna Unwin -- 7. An approach to learning at, for and through the workplace: a trade union case study -- Jim Sutherland -- 8. Education and training for small and



medium-sized enterprises -- Peter Senker -- 9. The dynamics of workplace learning: the role of work organizations -- David Ashton -- 10. Putting skills in their place: the regional pattern of work skills in Britain -- Alan Felstead -- 11. Policy interventions for a vibrant work-based route - or when policy hits reality's fan (again) -- Ewart Keep andJonathan Payne -- 12. No rights, just responsibilities: individual demand for continuing training -- Helen Rainbird -- 13. Six challenges for the future -- Working to Learn Group: Ewart Keep, Helen Rainbird, Karen Evans, -- Lorna Unwin, Phil Hodkinson and Peter Senker.

Sommario/riassunto

The workplace is an important site for learning in today's society. This book examines the changing nature of the work and effect that this has on the skill and knowledge requirements of individuals, its implications for employment, and ways in which these changing requirements can be met.