Introduction: Strange Matters -- Chapter 1. Expansive Learning -- Chapter 2. Researching Organizational Learning: Expansive Perspectives -- Chapter 3. Expansive Learning in Action -- Chapter 4. Towards an Expansive Learning Index -- Chapter 5. Ethics and Expansive Learning -- Conclusion.This book discusses approaches to organizational learning from a materialist point of view. Inspired by resea…
Section 1 – Supporting learning across working life -- Chapter One: Conceptualizing learning across working life, provisions of support and purposes -- Section 2 - Models, processes and practices for supporting lengthening working lives internationally -- Chapter Two: Employee strategies in organizing professional development -- Chapter Three: Learning to work together through talk: Continuin…
Family Environment -- Peer Relations -- Teacher Interpersonal Behaviour -- Cooperative Learning Outcomes and Cooperative Learning Environments.Weiping Liu contends that the impacts of learning environments on Chinese only children must be studied from a bioecological systems perspective by considering the direct and joint effects of learning environments and personality within the macro-environ…
1. Introduction: Work, Poverty, and Capitalism -- 2. Marginality Reconsidered -- 3. Homeless Street Press: Historical and Contemporary Connections -- 4. Time is Money -- 5. Being Productive: Working, Not Begging -- 6. Learning to Entrepreneurially Labour -- 7. Working in Public: Value, Exchange, and Performance -- 8. Moving On?: Pathways, Aspirations, and Stasis -- 9. Epilogue: Enterprise on th…
Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Conceptual Framework -- Chapter 3 Theories of Training Program Evaluation Frameworks and Methodologies -- Chapter 4 Review of Workplace English Training and Learning Research in the Chinese context -- Chapter 5 Research Design and Methods -- Chapter 6 The Context of Workplace English Training in Hong Kong and Mainland China -- Chapter 7 Case Study 1 of Workpl…
Part I Introduction, Origins and Early Development -- Chapter 1 Introduction and Outline -- Chapter 2 The Origins and Early Development of CPE -- Part II CPE's Development Viewed from Four Perspectives -- Chapter 3 Missed Opportunities in Relationships with Other Educational Sectors -- Chapter 4 Mandatory Continuing Professional Education: Its Origin and Acceptance -- Chapter 5 Mandatory Contin…
Sampling, Recruiting and Fieldwork Management -- Longitudinal Measurement of Educational Processes: Surveys and Constructs -- Longitudinal Measurement of Skills: Competence Testing -- Assessing Data Quality -- Data Management, Coding, Dissemination and User Support.This book addresses a broad array of pressing challenges of longitudinal surveys and provides innovative solutions to methodologica…
Drawing on the role of individuals, education and training providers and countries' social policy actions, and borrowing insights from psychology, sociology and economics, this book works towards an interdisciplinary theory of adult lifelong learning participation. It explores the fragmented evidence of why adults do or do not participate in adult lifelong learning activities and focuses on the…
1. Introduction -- 2. Survey on state-of-the-art -- 3. Summary and looking ahead -- 4. Reference list.Open AccessThis book presents a synopsis of six emerging themes in adult mathematics/numeracy and a critical discussion of recent developments in terms of policies, provisions, and the emerging challenges, paradoxes and tensions. It also offers an extensive review of the literature adult mathem…
Part I Professional, Theoretical, and Empirical Foundations -- 1. Introduction -- 2 Professional Practice Context, Research Site and Partnership -- 3 Sociomaterialism, practice theory, and workplace learning -- 4 Ethnographic Underpinnings -- Part II Four Dimensions of Professional Practices and Learning -- 5. Times and Professional Practices -- 6 Spaces and Professional Practices -- 7 Bodies a…