Learning Through Work

Practices, Purposes and Outcomes
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-85686-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 210 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Drawing on three decades of practical investigations, this book establishes new understandings about the importance of learning through work, outlining its purposes, contributions, conceptions and the curriculum, pedagogical and personal practices that shape its effectiveness.

Against views proposing it as being informal and leading to concrete outcomes, this volume presents learning through work as being central to human development, informing individual choices and developing one’s capacity for working life and occupational competence. In Section One, Billett makes a case for the value of learning through work and why it should be considered and engaged with as a legitimate mode of learning and model of education. Section Two sets out the foundations for the processes of learning through work that have underpinned its utility across human history. Section Three sets out bases by which that this educational model and mode of learning can be understood through the concepts of practice curriculum, practice pedagogies and personal practices. These are presented based on the kinds of knowledge that they generate and how they can be realised in and through day-to-day work activities in practice settings, including the development of innovations in work settings.

A much-needed resource from a leading expert in the field, this book will be of interest to educators, workplace trainers in a variety of settings, policy-makers and students in professional education courses.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Billett, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Erwachsenenbildung, lebenslanges Lernen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Personalwesen, Human Resource Management

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Section One:  Learning through work

1. Learning through work

2. Occupations, occupational knowledge and its learning: origins and legacies

Section Two: Foundations of learning through work

3. Learning through work: personal processes and social contributions

4. Occupations, situations and knowledge required for work

5. Being innovative: aligning learning and workplace innovations

Section Three: Practice-based learning and educative experiences

6. Practice curriculum

7. Practice pedagogies

8. Personal (epistemological) practices at work

9. Prospects for learning through work

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen Billett is Professor of Adult and Vocational Education at Griffith University, Australia, a Fellow of Social Science Academy of Australia, National Teaching Fellow, Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Fulbright scholar and awarded honorary doctorates from the universities of Jyvaskala (Finland), Geneva (Switzerland) and West (Sweden). He has worked in manufacturing, as a vocational educator, teacher educator, professional developer and policy roles in vocational education and as a teacher and researcher at Griffith University.