Journal of Workplace Learning: Volume 21 Issue 4

Toward a unifying framework to support informal learning theory, research and practice

Victoria J. Marsick

The purpose of this Guest Editorial is to introduce the papers in this special issue and outline how they help us to better understand the theory and practice of informal learning.

Experienced teachers' informal workplace learning and perceptions of workplace conditions

Annemarieke Hoekstra, Fred Korthagen, Mieke Brekelmans, Douwe Beijaard, Jeroen Imants

The purpose of this paper is to explore in detail how teachers' perceptions of workplace conditions for learning are related to their informal workplace learning activities and…

Teachers' workplace learning within informal contexts of school cultures in the United States and Lithuania

Elena Jurasaite‐Harbison

The purpose of this paper is to explore informal contexts of teachers' workplace professional learning and inform educational researchers, teacher educators, administrators and…

The informal learning of new teachers in school

Jim McNally, Allan Blake, Ashley Reid

The purpose of this paper is to present what the study of the experiences of beginning teachers and their informal learning says about the process of learning to teach, and to…

Informal learning of social workers: a method of narrative inquiry

Giancarlo Gola

The purpose of this paper is to investigate social workers' processes of informal learning, through their narration of their professional experience, in order to understand how…

Workplace learning: the roles of knowledge accessibility and management

Jessica Li, Gary Brake, Angeline Champion, Tony Fuller, Sandy Gabel, Lori Hatcher‐Busch

The purpose of this paper is to examine how knowledge management systems have been used by the studied organizations to improve knowledge accessibility and knowledge sharing in…