Training for a Smart Workforce

by Gerber,Rod; Gerber,Rod

• ISBN13: 9780415195522
• ISBN10: 0415195527
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 8/11/2000
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

With contributions by leading edge workplace analysts and practitioners from the U.S., Australia, New Zealand and Sweden, the book presents a fresh and challenging international perspective on the following key themes: -competence and being competent in the world of work -experience, common sense and expertise in workplace learning -social practices and literacies in the workplace -developing smart, self-directed workers -taking responsibility for learning in workplaces -empowering workers as learners in the workplace

Table of Contents

List of figures and tables	ix
Notes on contributors	x
Introduction	1	(10)
Rod Gerber
Colin Lankshear
Background	1	(5)
Overview of the book	6	(2)
References	8	(3)
PART 1 Megatrends: setting the scene in the changing world of work	11	(34)
Changes in work and social life at the dawn of the twenty-first century	13	(32)
Allan Levett
Introduction	13	(2)
Interpreting trends in society	15	(5)
The crisis in capitalism	20	(6)
The transformation of work: how jobs change	26	(8)
Implications for developing smart workforces and lifestyles in the twenty-first century	34	(6)
Conclusion	40	(1)
References	41	(4)
PART 2 Critical aspects for workplace education	45	(76)
Competence -- the basis for a smart workforce	47	(26)
Jorgen Sandberg
The nature of individual competence	48	(1)
Current rationalistic approaches to competence	48	(2)
Interpretative approaches to competence	50	(4)
A new foundation of human competence	54	(1)
The nature of collective competence	55	(1)
Towards an interpretative perspective on collective competence	56	(6)
Creating a smarter workforce through competence development	62	(1)
Developing individuals' competence	63	(2)
Developing collective competence	65	(2)
Conclusion	67	(1)
References	68	(5)
Experience, common sense and expertise in workplace learning	73	(24)
Rod Gerber
Two workplaces	73	(1)
Learning for life using experience, common sense and expertise in workplace learning	74	(9)
Experiential learning, common sense and expertise in the smart workforce	83	(1)
Experience in workplace learning	84	(3)
The power of common sense in workplace learning	87	(2)
The importance of expertise in workplace learning	89	(2)
Models for promoting experience, common sense and expertise in smart workforces	91	(3)
References	94	(3)
Getting smart around literacy: current social practice, workplaces and the workforce	97	(24)
Colin Lankshear
Telling tales	97	(2)
Snags	99	(1)
Introduction	99	(1)
Literacy	100	(8)
The new capitalism and smart work	108	(2)
Constructions of literacy	110	(3)
Alternative constructions of a smart workforce	113	(3)
Applications and implications	116	(1)
Conclusion	117	(2)
References	119	(2)
PART 3 Pedagogic implications and actions	121	(72)
Performance at work: identifying smart work practice	123	(28)
Stephen Billett
Introduction: a scenario	123	(3)
Changing bases for understanding work practice	126	(4)
Views about work performance	130	(10)
Planes and dimensions of work practice and performance	140	(6)
Summary	146	(1)
Note	147	(1)
References	147	(4)
Workers' texts, identities and learning possibilities in the smart workforce	151	(26)
Peter O'Connor
Introduction	151	(1)
Background	152	(2)
Workers' identities, cultures and learning requirements	154	(2)
Workplace and borderland discourses	156	(5)
Reading work and the workplace	161	(1)
Study findings and discussion	162	(6)
Some implications from the study: towards taking a smart approach to developing a smart workplace	168	(4)
Some abiding issues for the smart agenda: clues from the workplace literacy study	172	(3)
References	175	(2)
Transfer of learning to strengthen workplace training	177	(16)
Rod Gerber
Charles Oaklief
Introduction	177	(1)
Current thinking about transfer of training in workplaces	178	(5)
Relevance to workplace education	183	(1)
Enhancing workplace practices and outcomes through transfer of learning	184	(4)
An example of transfer of learning in workplaces	188	(2)
Conclusion	190	(1)
References	191	(2)
PART 4 Directions	193	(14)
Lifelong and life-broad learning	195	(12)
Staffan Larsson
Life-broad learning	195	(2)
The contradictory future	197	(2)
Lifelong learning	199	(3)
The meaning of adult studies	202	(2)
Conclusion	204	(1)
Notes	204	(2)
References	206	(1)
Index	207