Table of contents - Special Issue: Challenging for integrating work and learning, selected papers from the Internetional Conference on Researching Work and Learning, Sydney, Australia
Guest Editors: Paul Hager, Tony Brown
Connecting work and learning: design engineers' learning at work
Kaija CollinThe paper seeks to investigate design engineers' and product developers' learning through their work. The aim was to approach designers' work practice and their learning in the…
You are who I say you are: the rhetorical construction of identity in the operating theatre
Alan BleakleyThe paper seeks to show that narrative close call reporting is one strand of an ongoing collaborative inquiry project with 300 staff aiming to improve teamwork in operating…
Contextuality and cultural texts: a case study of workplace learning in call centres
Margaret CrouchThe paper seeks to show the contextualisation of call centres as a work‐specific ethnographically and culturally based community, which, in turn, influences pedagogical practices…
Experience, competence and workplace learning
Susanna PaloniemiThis paper aims to examine employees' conceptions of the meaning of experience in job‐competence and its development in workplace context. The aim is to bring out the variety of…
Recognising current competencies of volunteers in emergency service organisations
Ralph Catts, Dave ChamingsThe paper seeks to show the relationship between organisational structure and flexibility of training has not been well researched. Focusing on the role of recognition of current…
Learning to make changes: democratic dialogue in action
Satu Kalliola, Risto Nakari, Ilkka PesonenThe theoretical aim of the research in this paper is to conceptualize learning in the context of communicative action research, specifically in the context of democratic dialogue…
VET practitioners working with private enterprises: a “third space”?
Roger Harris, Michele SimonsThis paper aims to analyse, through the lens of learning network theory, ways in which external VET practitioners work within private enterprises to promote learning within these…
Transformative learning in joint leadership
Lena WilhelmsonThe aim of this paper is to show what the leaders themselves regard as the working ingredients in their mutual work situation that help to facilitate personal development.
Upward feedback and its contribution to employees' feeling of self‐determination
Johannes Bauer, Regina H. MulderThe paper seeks to show that self‐determination is a widely regarded motivational variable in educational research that relates to intrinsically motivated, self‐directed learning…
Learning to organize: US unions, work, and learning
Ellen Scully‐RussResponding to the recent split in the US labor movement, this paper aims to argue that learning must become an integral part of a progressive union devoted to organizing.
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1366-5626e-ISSN:
1758-7859ISSN-L:
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- Sara Cervai
- Prof Tauno Kekäle