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…
Philosophy of Technology: What and Why? -- Technological Artifacts -- Technological Knowledge -- Technological Processes -- Technology and the Nature of Humans -- Ethics and Aesthetics of Technology -- Learners’ Philosophies about Technologies -- Reconceptualizing Technology through Education -- Practical Issues in Teaching about Technology -- Questions and Assignments -- Resources for Furthe…
Preface -- Chapter 1. Philosophy of technology: what and why? -- Chapter 2. Technological artifacts -- Chapter 3. Technological knowledge -- Chapter 4. Technological processes -- Chapter 5. Technology and the nature of humans -- Chapter 6. Ethics and aesthetics of technology -- Chapter 7. Learners’ philosophies of technology -- Chapter 8. Reconceptualizing technology through education -- Chap…
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…
Foreword; Lee S. Shulman -- 1. Introduction; Marcia Mentkowski and Paul F. Wimmers -- 2. Conceptual Elements for Performance Assessment for Faculty and Student Learning; Marcia Mentkowski, Mary E. Diez, Dena Lieberman, Desiree Pointer Mace, Margaret Rauschenberger, and Jeana Abromeit -- 3. Improving the Integration of Performance Assessments within the Curriculum Across the Professions; Ilene H…
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…
Perspectives and Overviews -- Vocationalised Secondary Education Revisited -- Setting the Context: An Overview of Secondary Education Reform with Particular Reference to the Asia-Pacific Region -- Promise and Performance in Vocationalised Secondary Education: Has the Baby Been Thrown Out with the Bath Water? -- Country Case Studies -- Pre-vocational Secondary Education in Botswana -- Vocational…
Cross-Cutting Themes -- Schooling and Basic Skills: Training Programmes and Challenges in the Informal Sector: Latin America -- Informal Learning and the Role of Social Movements -- The Informal Sector: Non-Formal Education Settings for Working Children -- Institutional Support Structures and Modes of Skills Transmission -- Gender and the Informal Economy in Latin America: New Challenges and Po…
Primary and Upper Primary Education (1–8) -- Secondary (9–10) and Higher Secondary (11–12) Education -- ITI’s/ITC‘s -- Higher Education/University.-Informal Learning. .This book explores how the Indian education and training system prepares young people for the world of work and for the requirements of the employment market – because India is a leading industrialised nation with a v…
This book investigates the integration of literary writing into work based or business writing. It proposes ways of how to help people with considerable work experience use literature to engage with the problems they face in their work. Many people like to read for pleasure, but their skills in reading could always be improved. This book makes an original contribution to the fields of education…