Working to Learn: Transforming Learning in the Workplace

by Evans,Karen; Evans,Karen

• ISBN13: 9780749436858
• ISBN10: 0749436859
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-03-01
• Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer

Summary

The workplace is an important site for learning in today's society. This book examines the changing nature of the work and effect that this has on the skill and knowledge requirements of individuals, its implications for employment, and ways in which these changing requirements can be met.

Author Biography

Karen Evans is Professor and Head of the School of Lifelong Education and International Development at the University of London Institute of Education Phil Hodkinson is Professor of Lifelong Learning and Director of the Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Leeds Lorna Unwin is Professor of Vocational Education at the Centre for Labour Market Studies, University of Leicester

Table of Contents

List of figures	v
List of tables	vi
List of contributors	vii
Editors' introduction	1	(6)
Karen Evans
Phil Hodkinson
Lorna Unwin
The significance of workplace learning for a `learning society'	7	(22)
Karen Evans
Helen Rainbird
Learning careers: conceptualizing lifelong work-based learning	29	(15)
Phil Hodkinson
Martin Bloomer
Contrasting approaches to the role of qualifications in the promotion of lifelong learning	44	(19)
Michael Young
The interaction between qualifications and work-based learning	63	(16)
Michael Eraut
The challenges of `making learning visible': problems and issues in recognizing tacit skills and key competences	79	(16)
Karen Evans
Developing pedagogies for the contemporary workplace	95	(17)
Alison Fuller
Lorna Unwin
An approach to learning at, for and through the workplace: a trade union case study	112	(15)
Jim Sutherland
Education and training for small and medium-sized enterprises	127	(22)
Peter Senker
The dynamics of workplace learning: the role of work organizations	149	(14)
David Ashton
Putting skills in their place: the regional pattern of work skills in Britain	163	(24)
Alan Felstead
Policy interventions for a vibrant work-based route - or when policy hits reality's fan (again)	187	(25)
Ewart Keep
Jonathan Payne
No rights, just responsibilities: individual demand for continuing training	212	(21)
Helen Rainbird
Six challenges for the future	233	(8)
Ewart Keep
Helen Rainbird
Karen Evans
Lorna Unwin
Phil Hodkinson
Peter Senker
Appendix: Economic and Social Research Council Teaching and Learning Research Programme	241	(2)
Index	243