Journal of Workplace Learning: Volume 20 Issue 7/8

Rural education: learning to be rural teachers

Barbara Barter

This paper draws on research which began in 2006 with students in a graduate course on rural education. Its purpose was to find out what graduate students saw as current issues of…

Negotiating TVET for sustainable livelihoods

Astrid von Kotze

The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the adequacy of UNESCO policy in the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development. People working in the informal economy in the…

Guest worker programs and Canada: Towards a foundation for understanding the complex pedagogies of transnational labour

Peter H. Sawchuk, Arlo Kempf

The purpose of this paper is to contextualise historically transnational labour experiences within guest worker programs in Canada and to provide a conceptual foundation for…

Organising learning: informal workplace learning in a trade union child‐care campaign

Tony Brown

Trade unions, like many other membership‐based social movement organisations, are confronted by the challenge of growth and revitalisation. Declining membership numbers, an…

Hard/soft, formal/informal, work/learning: Tenuous/persistent binaries in the knowledge‐based society

Kaela Jubas, Shauna Butterwick

This paper discusses insights from a study of women working, or seeking or preparing for work, in the information technology (IT) field. At issue is how and whether alternative…

Navigating the wilderness of becoming professional

Mary C. Johnsson, Paul Hager

This paper aims to examine the nature of learning discovered by recent graduates participating in a symphony orchestra‐initiated development program that is designed to nurture…

Selected papers from the 5th International Conference on Researching Work and Learning

Shirley Walters, Linda Cooper