Journal of Workplace Learning: Volume 13 Issue 7/8

Researchers are learners too: collaboration in research on workplace learning

Nicky Solomon, David Boud, Maria Leontios, Maret Staron

Research in workplace learning needs to take into account the reflexive nature of researchers’ learning. Explores how members of a research team examined their own learning and…

Modelling reflective and contextual learning at work

Annikki Järvinen, Esa Poikela

Models of experiential learning, organisational learning and knowledge creating offer a possibility to comprehensively analyse learning at work. Develops a new conceptual basis…

Professional identity as learning processes in life histories

Henning Salling Olesen

Refers to work domains that might be termed professional or semi‐professional: engineers, social workers, nurses, pedagogues, police, and researches the subjective engagement of…

Gender‐based learning dilemmas in organizations

Lena Abrahamsson

Raises questions about the links between gender and organizational changes, and between gender and learning at work. The empirical base is a qualitative study of organizational…

Worker control as the missing link: relations between paid/unpaid work and work‐related learning

David W. Livingstone

Explores relations between workers’ extent of control over their paid and unpaid labour processes and the incidence of different types of organized and informal learning. Activity…

Modernised learning: an emerging lifelong agenda by British trade unions?

Keith P. Forrester

Argues that trade union education has tended to mirror the wider fortunes and complexities both within the particular union (or unions) and within the wider socio‐economic…

Making workers visible: unmasking learning in a work team

Sharon L. Howell, Vicki K. Carter, Fred M. Schied

Investigates how a particular work team interprets and comes to understand quality management initiatives centered around customer service. The study set out to add to the…

Why workers are reluctant learners: the case of the Canadian pulp and paper industry

John A. Bratton

Explores worker flexibility, through learning, union strategies, and resistance to learning. Issues of flexibility, learning, and quality are subject of much debate, negotiation…

Trade union‐based workplace learning: a case study in workplace reorganization and worker knowledge production

Peter H. Sawchuk

Presents a case study on union‐based research and education activity generated in response to restructuring in the Canadian telecommunications industry and workplace…

Workplace judgement and conceptions of learning

Paul Hager

Judgement is a pivotal notion for understanding learning. But how we view judgement is crucially shaped by our favoured conception of learning. The favoured conception of learning…