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  • Clinical Learning and Teaching Innovations in Nursing

    Dedicated Education Units Building a Better Future

    Edited by Kay Edgecombe, Margaret Bowden ...
    Series Book 10 - Innovation and Change in Professional Education
    This book provides an in-depth insight into the Dedicated Education Units (DEU) clinical learning strategy. It shows how DEUs work and explains the concept, philosophy, principles, practical implementation and first-hand experiences of this ground-breaking, global work-integrated learning strategy. It presents the benefits of DEUs and offers insight into how DEUs can provide real options for ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

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  • Shaping the Futures of (Vocational) Education and Work

    Commitment of VET and VET Research

    Edited by Gabriele Molzberger, Manfred Wahle ...
    Series Book 13 - Studies in Vocational and Continuing Education
    Education and work are moving towards an open, but uncertain future. Research on vocational and continuing education constantly needs to reassure the conditions of educational systems, current concepts of VET and work, educational policies, and its own assumptions in ascertaining theory of VET. In this context, modernisation is a significant paradigm. It refers to new ideological, socio-economic, ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Francophone Perspectives of Learning Through Work

    Conceptions, Traditions and Practices

    Edited by Laurent Filliettaz, Stephen Billett ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book generates a comprehensive account of ways in which practice-based learning has been conceptualized in the Francophone context. Learning for occupations, and the educational and practice-based experiences supporting it are the subject of increased interest and attention globally. Governments, professional bodies, workplaces and workers are now looking for experiences that support the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Mimetic Learning at Work

    Learning in the Circumstances of Practice

    by Stephen Billett ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    The concept of mimetic learning at work is outlined and elaborated in this text. That elaboration consists of an account of how securing occupational capacities has been primary associated with learning processes and an explanation of those processes. Much, and probably most, of the learning and development across individuals working lives occurs outside of circumstances of direct guidance or ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Continuing Professional Education in Australia

    A Tale of Missed Opportunities

    by Barrie Brennan ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book offers a history of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in the Australian context. It presents an approach that links the development of CPD to a series of 'missed opportunities' and the identification of three key themes (mandatory CPD, competencies and regulation/registration) as well as with national regulation for select health professions. It not only relates the evolution of ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • International Perspectives on Competence in the Workplace

    Implications for Research, Policy and Practice

    Edited by Christine R. Velde ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    As the world’s economy develops into a more dynamic, fast-moving, and unpredictable entity, it is crucial that the workers who create wealth have the ability to assess and respond to new and unforeseen challenges. In other words, the future will require a more competent workforce. What, though, does this mean in practice? In this, the fully revised second edition of Christine Velde’s book, a ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Authentic Professional Learning

    Making a Difference Through Learning at Work

    by Ann Webster-Wright ...
    Series Book 2 - Professional and Practice-based Learning
    There is considerable and growing interest in professionals learning across their working lives. The growth in this interest is likely premised upon the increasing percentage of those who are being employed under the designation as professi- als or para-professional workers in advanced industrial economies. Part of being designated in this way is a requirement to be able to work autonomously and ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Competence-based Vocational and Professional Education

    Bridging the Worlds of Work and Education

    Edited by Martin Mulder ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book presents a comprehensive overview of extant literature on competence-based vocational and professional education since the introduction of the competence concept in the 1950s. To structure the fi eld, the book distinguishes between three approaches to defi ning competence, based on 1.functional behaviourism, 2. integrated occupationalism, and 3. situated professionalism. It also ... Read more

    $404.09 USD

  • Discourses on Professional Learning

    On the Boundary Between Learning and Working

    Edited by Christian Harteis, Andreas Rausch, Jürgen Seifried ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book analyses and elaborates on learning processes within work environments and explores professional learning. It presents research indicating general characteristics of the work environment that support learning, as well as barriers to workplace learning. Themes of professional development, lifelong learning and business organisation emerge through the chapters and contributions explore ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Transdisciplinary Professional Learning and Practice

    Edited by Paul Gibbs ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book presents thinking about and through transdisciplinary and professional development as an educative process. Rather than focusing on the delineation of the approaches offered, an analysis of these contributions points to commonality in those problems that benefit from a transdisciplinary perspective. The core elements of transdisciplinarity can lead to what might be called metanoia - ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Impact of Digitalization in the Workplace

    An Educational View

    Edited by Christian Harteis ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This edited volume brings together researchers from various disciplines (i.e. education, psychology, sociology, economy, information technology, engineering) discussing elementary changes at workplaces occurring through digitalization, and reflecting on educational challenges for individuals, organizations, and society. The latest developments in information and communication technology seem to ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Parliamentarians’ Professional Development

    The Need for Reform

    Edited by Colleen Lewis, Ken Coghill ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book addresses the education and training of Members of Parliament (MPs). It examines existing training programs offered in various countries around the world, evaluates their strengths and weaknesses and makes recommendations for a new approach, which aligns the professional development of MPs to 21st century requirements. Contributors address the role of parliamentarians, how to prepare ... Read more

    $89.09 USD