Journal of Workplace Learning: Volume 18 Issue 7/8

Connecting work and learning: design engineers' learning at work

The 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

The 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

The 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

This 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

The 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

The 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”?

This 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

The 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

The 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

Responding 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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