Journal of Workplace Learning: Volume 29 Issue 7/8

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Table of contents - Special Issue: RWL9 work, learning and globalisation: challenges for the 21st century

Guest Editors: Helen Bound, Yew-Jin Lee, Wei-Ying Lim

Learning academic work practices in discipline, department and university

Miriam Zukas, Janice Malcolm

This paper aims to examine the everyday practices of academic work in social science to understand better academics’ learning. It also asks how academic work is enacted in…

Policy ideals for a reformed education: How police students value new and enduring content in a time of change

Kirsi Kohlström, Oscar Rantatalo, Staffan Karp, Mojgan Padyab

This study aims to examine how subgroups within a cohort of Swedish police students value different types of curricula content (i.e. new competencies versus enduring ones) in the…

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Understanding adults’ strong problem-solving skills based on PIAAC

Raija Hämäläinen, Bram De Wever, Kari Nissinen, Sebastiano Cincinnato

Research has shown that the problem-solving skills of adults with a vocational education and training (VET) background in technology-rich environments (TREs) are often inadequate…

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Investigating work and learning through complex adaptive organisations

Amanda Louise Lizier

The purpose of this paper is to outline an empirical study of how professionals experience work and learning in complex adaptive organisations. The study uses a complex adaptive…

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Sociomaterial perspectives on work and learning: sites of emergent learning

Ann Reich, Donna Rooney, Nick Hopwood

This paper aims to introduce, explain and illustrate the concept of “sites of emergent learning” (SEL), which pinpoints particular instances of learning in everyday practice. This…

Learning in home care: a digital artifact as a designated boundary object-in-use

Anna Sigridur Islind, Ulrika Lundh Snis

The aim of this paper is to understand how the role of an mHealth artifact plays out in home care settings. An mHealth artifact, in terms of a mobile app, was tested to see how…

Shifting boundaries in telecare – the nurse-doctor relationship

Niels Christian Mossfeldt Nickelsen, Bente Elkjaer

Telecare is a growing practice defined as diagnosis, treatment and monitoring among doctors, nurses and patients, which is mediated through ICT and without face-to-face…

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ISSN:

1366-5626

Online date, start – end:

1997

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editors:

  • Assistant Sara Cervai
  • Prof Tauno Kekäle