The volume provides a broad-based, yet incisive analysis of the range of theory, research, and practical developments in workplace learning.

Table of Contents

• About the Editors
• Notes on Contributors
• General Introduction
• SECTION I THEORY
• 1 Theories of Work, Place and Learning: New Directions - Len Cairns and Margaret Malloch
• 2 Theories of Workplace Learning - Paul Hager
• 3 Workplaces and Learning - Knud Illeris
• 4 Workplace Learning and the Organization - Alison Fuller and Lorna Unwin
• 5 Subjectivity, Self and Personal Agency in Learning Through and for Work - Stephen Billett
• 6 Learning in the Workplace: Communities of Practice and beyond - Len Cairns
• 7 Activity Theory and Learning at Work - Yrjö Engeström
• 8 Informal Learning at Work: Conditions, Processes and Logics - Per-Erik Ellström
• 9 Towards a Meta-Theory of Learning and Performance - Darlene Russ-Eft
• 10 Knowledge and Workplace Learning - Nicholas M. Allix
• 11 Rethinking Work-Based Learning: For Education Professionals and Professionals Who Educate - Karen Evans, David Guile and Judy Harris
• SECTION II RESEARCH AND PRACTICE
• 12 Researching Workplace Learning: An Overview and Critique - Peter H. Sawchuk
• 13 How Researching Learning at Work Can Lead to Tools for Enhancing Learning - Michael Eraut
• 14 Researching Workplace Learning in the United States - Victoria Marsick, Karen Watkins and Bridget N. O'Connor
• 15 Researching Workplace Learning in Australia - Nicky Solomon and David Boud
• 16 Researching Workplace Learning in Europe - Hans Gruber and Christian Harteis
• 17 Initiatives in VET and Workplace Learning: A Korean Perspective - Sang-Duk Choi
• 18 Age Management in Organisations in the European Union - Gerhard Naegele and Alan Walker
• 19 Work and Learning: From Schools to Workplaces - Richard D. Lakes
• 20 Competency-Based Training and its Impact on Workplace Learning in Australia - Allie Clemans and Peter Rushbrook
• 21 Work-Related Learning in the United States: Past Practices, Paradigm Shifts, and Policies of Partnerships - John M. Dirkx
• 22 Workplace Learning in East Africa: A Case Study - Martin Mulder and Judith Gulikers
• 23 Policies for the Knowledge Economy: Knowledge Discourses at Play - Tara Fenwick
• 24 Virtual Workplace Learning: Promises Met? - Robert G. Brookshire, Kara M. Lybarger and Lynn B. Keane
• 25 Seeing Workplace Learning Through an Emotional Lens - Brenda R. Beatty
• 26 Towards a Social Ecology of Adult Learning in and Through the Workplace - Karen Evans, Edmund Waite and Natasha Kersh
• SECTION III ISSUES AND FUTURES
• 27 Beyond the Workplace: Learning in the Lifeplace - Margaret Harris and Colin Chisholm
• 28 Workplace Learning in the Knowledge Economy: The Development of Vocational Practice and Social Capital - David Guile
• 29 Workplace Learning and Higher Education - Carol Costley
• 30 Identifying and Classifying Corporate Universities in the United States - Amy Lui-Abel
• 31 Partnerships between and among Education and the Public and Private Sectors - Bridget N. O'Connor and Doug Lynch
• 32 Brave New Workplace: The Impact of Technology on Location and Job Structures - Elizabeth Regan and Chester Delaney
• 33 Technology and Knowledge Management - Jingli Cheng, Su Jin Son and Curtis J. Bonk
• 34 Workplace Learning: Organizations, Ethics, and Issues - Craig E. Johnson