Workplace Learning for Changing Social and Economic Circumstances

Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together a range of socio-cultural perspectives to examine digitalisation, identity, work design, and affordances for learning, mediated by the ecosystems within which work, and the workplace is positioned. An appealing resource for researchers, academics, adult educators, and human resource personnel. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Section 1: Theoretical framing 1. Complexity theory: a key to understanding
emergent learning and judgements in workplaces 2. Liminality, uncertainty and
troublesome knowledge in learning at work 3. Datafication of work and learning:
what it is, why it matters and how we can deal with it 4. New interpretations of
class and power in work and learning: contributions of a mind, culture and
occupation perspective 5. Cultural-historical understandings of transitions in
changing workplaces 6. Socratic ignorance in processes of learning with
technology Section 2: Investigating workplace learning for changing
circumstances 7. Utilising pedagogically rich activities to meet emerging
workplace learning challenges 8. Shaping the relationship between working and
learning in digitalised working environments 9. Equipping and assessing learners
for the ever-changing workplace: practices, assessment and evaluative judgement
10. Vocational teachers' identity construction at the interface of work and
education: workplace-oriented VET teacher training 11. Meaning-making in a trial
of sector wide change 12. Workplace learning for fair work on digital labour
platforms Section 3: Implications for practice 13. How do public policy
professionals work and learn? Exploring a missing dimension in workplace
learning research 14. Problem identification in Change Laboratories: workplace
learning to eradicate homelessness 15. Working and learning in client-facing
interprofessional project teams as 'fractional ontological performance':
Insights from consulting engineering 16. Innovations and learning at work: local
factors and contributions 17. Leadership in crisis: learning to lead beyond
command and control 

Autoreninfo

Helen Bound is Associate Professor, Institute for Adult Learning at the Singapore University of Social Sciences.

Anne Edwards is Professor Emeritus, Department of Education at the University of Oxford.

Karen Evans is Professor Emeritus, Institute of Education at University College London.

Arthur Chia is Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Ageing Research & Education at Duke-NUS Medical School.