Journal of Workplace Learning: Volume 16 Issue 1/2

New forms of learning in co‐configuration work

Yrjö Engeström

Focuses on the theories and study of organizational and workplace learning. Outlines the landscape of learning in co‐configuration settings, a new type of work that includes…

Lifelong learning in the workplace? Challenges and issues

Paul Hager

There is much scepticism about the concept of lifelong learning within both the educational literature and the literature on work. Certainly, many work arrangements discourage…

Distributed systems of generalizing as the basis of workplace learning

Jaakko Virkkunen, Juha Pihlaja

This article proposes a new way of conceptualizing workplace learning as distributed systems of appropriation, development and the use of practice‐relevant generalizations fixed…

Learning in two communities: the challenge for universities and workplaces

Cathrine Le Maistre, Anthony Paré

This article reports on a longitudinal study of school‐to‐work transitions in four professions: education, social work, physiotherapy, and occupational therapy. Each of these…

Participation, reflection and integration for business and lifelong learning: Pedagogical challenges of the integrative studies programme at the University of Strathclyde Business School

Bill Johnston, Aileen Watson

This paper gives a succinct account of current debates in the literature on graduate attributes as they are related to employment and lifelong learning, and argues the limitations…

Recognition of tacit skills and knowledge: Sustaining learning outcomes in workplace environments

Karen Evans, Natasha Kersh

The part played by tacit skills and knowledge in work performance is well recognised but not well understood. These implicit or hidden dimensions of knowledge and skill are key…

Learning for/at work:Somali women “doing it for themselves”

Gayle Morris, David Beckett

This article draws on the understanding of the lives and experiences of two Somali women, as case studies, to examine the relationship between identity, work and language…

Safety in operating theatres: Improving teamwork through team resource management

Alan Bleakley, Adrian Hobbs, James Boyden, Linda Walsh

Work in progress is reported for a research project aiming to improve multiprofessional teamworking in operating theatres through iterative educational intervention. Experimental…

Learning processes in a work organization: From individual to collective and/orvice versa?

Tuija Lehesvirta

The study investigates learning as knowledge‐creation processes on individual and collective levels. The processes were examined in an ethnographic study, conducted in a metal…

The savvy learner

Richard Dealtry

This article defines the cultural nature and scale of change in learning consciousness that has to take place when the organisationally‐based adult learner makes the transition…