Learning, Work and Practice: New Understandings

This books original contribution to a crowded literature on work and learning will attract strong international interest. Its focus on the philosophy of learning at work brings a fresh perspective on a topic normally viewed through psychological, anthropological and sociological eyes. It assembles...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Gibbs, Paul. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
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Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4759-3
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction- Thinking about work in work based learning, Paul Gibbs
  • Section one
  • The Workplace as a Site of Learning. Reflections on the Conceptual Relationship between Workplace and Learning, Christopher Winch
  • Practice as a key idea in understanding work-based learning, Paul Hager
  • The role of on-the-job and off-the-job provision in vocational education and training, Gerald Lum
  • Tacit Knowledge and the Labor Process, Theodore Lewis
  • Workplace Identity, Transition and the Role of Learning, Geoff Hinchcliffe
  • Ontological Distinctiveness and the Emergence of Purposes, David Beckett
  • Section two
  • Aristotelian Gnoseology and Work-Based Learning, Marianna Papastephanou
  • Working our way through murky coordinates: Philosophy in support of truth processes, Kent den Heyer
  • Deconstructing practice: exploring the temporal play of know-how and being in the workplace, Kevin J. Flint
  • An epistemology of the hand: Putting pragmatism to work, Svend Brinkmann, Lene Tanggaard
  • Neo-Pragmatism, meaning and learning in the workplace, Paul Gibbs
  • Section three
  • Foucault and work-based Research Ethics: Revisiting some issues, Michalinos Zembylas
  • Communitarian Ethics and Work-based Education: Some African Perspectives, Thaddeus Metz
  • Islamic Perspectives on Work-Based Learning, Mesut Akdere, Jackleen M. Salem, S. Mahdy Amine.