Journal of Workplace Learning: Volume 24 Issue 7/8

Struggling with involuntary expressive behaviours: Chinese doctors' professional learning in working contexts

Songge Ma

This paper aims to explore what Chinese doctors have learned in authentic medical practice, what they want to learn, and the dynamics behind their professional learning in working…

“Who am I supposed to let down?”: The caring work and emotional practices of vocational educational training teachers working with potential drop‐out students

Lena Lippke

Because of high drop‐out rates among the students entering vocational education in Denmark retention of students has become pivotal to Danish educational policy. Thus vocational…

Is Chinese software engineering professionalizing or not?: Specialization of knowledge, subjective identification and professionalization

Yan Yang

This paper aims to discuss the challenge for the classical idea of professionalism in understanding the Chinese software engineering industry after giving a close insight into the…

Learning and propensity for changing the job situation during downsizing

Maria Gustavsson

The purpose of this paper is to investigate individuals' learning and propensity for changing their job situation during downsizing in a company.

Emergent learning practices in globalizing work: The case of a Finnish‐Chinese project in a Finnish technology consulting firm

Hanna Toiviainen, Jiri Lallimo, Jianzhong Hong

This article aims to analyze emergent learning practices for globalizing work through two research questions: “What are the conceptualizations of work represented by the Virtual…

Pedagogy of solidarity: educating for an interracial working class movement

Winnie Ng

This paper aims to report on the author's recent research examining the meaning and practices of educating for solidarity, specifically from anti‐racism and decolonizing…

Learning patterns of teams at the workplace

Herman Baert, Natalie Govaerts

With the intention of detecting and describing a series of team learning patterns within a selection of organisations, an extensive exploratory and qualitative research project…

Guest editorial

Jian Huang, Henning Salling Olesen