Table of Contents

PART ONE: THEORY
Theories of Work, Place and Learning: New Directions - Len Cairns and Margaret Malloch
Theories of Workplace Learning - Paul Hager
Workplaces and Learning - Knud Illeris
Workplace Learning and the Organization - Alison Fuller and Lorna Unwin
Subjectivity, Self and Personal Agency in Learning Through and for Work - Stephen Billet
Learning in the Workplace: Communities of Practice and Beyond - Len Cairns
Activity Theory and Learning at Work - Yrjo Engestrom
Informal Learning at Work: Conditions, Processes and Logics - Per Erik Ellstrom
Towards a Meta-Theory of Learning and Performance - Darlene Russ-Eft
Knowledge and Workplace Learning - Nicholas M Allix
Rethinking Work-Based Learning: For Education Professionals and Professionals Who Educate - Karen Evans, David Guile and Judy Harris
PART TWO: RESEARCH AND PRACTICE
Researching Workplace Learning: An Overview and Critique - Peter H Sawchuck
How Researching Learning at Work can Lead to Tools for Enhancing Learning - Michael Eraut
Researching Workplace Learning in the United States - Victoria Marsick, Karen Watkins and Bridget N O′Connor
Researching Workplace Learning in Australia - Nicky Solomon and David Boud
Researching Workplace Learning in Europe - Hans Gruber and Christian Harteis
Initiatives in VET and Workplace Learning: A Korean Perspective - Sang-Duk Choi
Age Management in Organisations in the European Union - Gerhard Naegele and Alan Walker
Work and Learning: From Schools to Workplaces - Richard D Lakes
Competency-based Training and its Impact on Workplace Learning in Australia - Allie Clemans and Peter Rushbrook
Work-related Learning in the United States: Past Practices, Paradigm Shifts, and Policies of Partnerships - John M Dirkx
Workplace Learning in East Africa: A Case Study - Martin Mulder and Judith Gulikers
Policies for the Knowledge Economy: Knowledge Discourses at Play - Tara Fenwick
Virtual Workplace Learning: Promises Met? - Robert G Brookshire, Kara M Lybarger and Lynn B Keane
Seeing Workplace Learning through an Emotional Lens - Brenda R Beatty
Towards a Social Ecology of Adult Learning in and through the Workplace - Karen Evans, Edmund Waite, and Natasha Kersh
PART THREE: ISSUES AND FUTURES
Beyond the Workplace: Learning in the Lifeplace - Margaret Harris and Colin Chisholm
Workplace Learning in the Knowledge Economy: The Development of Vocational Practice and Social Capital - David Guile
Workplace Learning and Higher Education - Carol Costley
Identifying and Classifying Corporate Universities in the United States - Amy Lui-Abel
Partnerships Between and Among Education and the Public and Private Sectors - Bridget N O′Connor and Doug Lynch
Brave New Workplace: The Impact of Technology on Location and Job Structures - Elizabeth Regan and Chester Delaney
Technology and Knowledge Management - Jingli Cheng, Su Jin Son and Curtis J Bonk
Workplace Learning: Organizations, Ethics and Issues - Craig E Johnson

About the Author

Bridget N. O'Connor, is Professor of Higher Education and Business Education. She is particularly interested in adult learners and in the transfer of learning from the classroom to the workplace. Professor O'Connor has published dozens of articles in Journal of Education for Business, Informing Science, Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, and NABTE Review. She has also authored or coauthored numerous yearbook chapters for the NBEA Yearbook. With colleagues from Australia and England, Professor O'Connor is an editor of the just-released Sage Handbook of Workplace Learning. She is also the co-author of several books, most recently Learning at Work: How to Support Individual and Organizational Learning (HRD Press. 2007), Training for Organizations 2nd edition (Cincinnati: South-Western Educational Publishing Co., 2002), and End-user Information Systems: Implementing Individual and Work Group Technologies 2nd edition (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002). These books are supplemented with CD-ROM and Web-based instructor's manuals. She has been a leader in a variety of professional associations, including the SIG Workplace Learning of AERA, which she chaired in 2000-2001; the American Society for Training and Development; and the Organizational Systems Research Association (OSRA). In addition to being its journal editor, she has been OSRA's president, chaired its two national curriculum projects, and served as vice president for publications.

Reviews

′Over the past decade, workplace learning has become one of the major areas of development for business, management and education. Yet ideas about it are diverse and complex and its practice is affected by competing influences and differing perspectives. This essential guide brings together many of the world′s leading scholars to clarify and explore the various concepts and approaches in ways that will benefit practitioners, researchers, educators and policymakers alike′
Tom Nesbit
Simon Fraser University

"I would recommend it to both serious academics and those who frivolously wish to sample the topic."
*London Review of Education*

As a nurse, manager and now researcher concerned with healthcare education I found this volume interesting and thought provoking... this volume provides a starting point to explore the evidence underpinning workplace learning, and encourages a wider appreciation of different perspectives and different work places.
*Nigel Davies*