Journal of Workplace Learning: Volume 15 Issue 3

Workplace learning and the metacognitive functions of routines

Hugh Munby, Joan Versnel, Nancy L. Hutchinson, Peter Chin, Derek H. Berg

In the face of research that shows that workplace knowledge and learning are highly contextual, calls for the teaching of generalizable skills for the workplace have been…

Workplace mentors: demands and benefits

Stephen Billett

As there is a growing interest in experienced workers mentoring co‐workers in workplace settings, it is necessary to understand its impact on those who are nominated as mentors…

Co‐operative education in the pulp and paper sector in Quebec

Lorraine Savoie‐Zajc, André Dolbec

Using the concept of “community of practice” and a typology developed by Guile and Griffiths, this article characterizes the quality and the nature of learning students achieved…

Innovation: examining workplace learning in new enterprises

Tara Fenwick

Innovation is argued here to be a significant and complex dimension of learning in work, involving a mix of rational, intuitive, emotional and social processes embedded in…