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  • Learning Through Work

    Practices, Purposes and Outcomes

    by Stephen Billett ...
    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 ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Learning In The Workplace

    Strategies for effective practice

    by Stephen Billett ...
    Learning in the workplace has come of age with the publication of this book. It shows the way for a new level of sophistication in the ways learning and work are treated. And it opens new territory for exploration in the world of learning throughout life.David Boud, University of Technology, SydneyStephen Billett provides a comprehensive and practical model, well-grounded in theory and research, ... Read more

    $32.99 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

  • Experience of School Transitions

    Policies, Practice and Participants

    Edited by Stephen Billett, Greer Johnson, Sue Thomas, Cheryl Sim, Stephen Hay, Jill Ryan ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Leaving school, whether to move on to training, work or education, is a fundamental rite of passage the world over. This volume draws on a wealth of international sources and studies in its analysis of the ‘transitions’ young students make as they move on from their secondary schooling. It identifies how these transitions are planned for by policymakers, enacted by school staff and engaged with by ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Vocational Education

    Purposes, Traditions and Prospects

    by Stephen Billett ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book discusses what constitutes vocational education as well as its key purposes, objects, formation and practices. In short, it seeks to outline and elaborate the nature of the project of vocational education. It addresses a significant gap in the available literature by providing a single text that elaborates the scope and diversity of the sector, its key objectives (i.e. vocations and ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • International Handbook of Research in Professional and Practice-based Learning

    Edited by Stephen Billett, Christian Harteis, Hans Gruber ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    The International Handbook of Research in Professional and Practice-based Learning discusses what constitutes professionalism, examines the concepts and practices of professional and practice-based learning, including associated research traditions and educational provisions. It also explores professional learning in institutions of higher and vocational education as well the practice settings ... Read more

    $674.09 USD

  • Sustaining Employability Through Work-life Learning

    Practices and Policies

    Edited by Stephen Billett, Henning Salling Olesen, Laurent Filliettaz ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book seeks to advance understandings of and approaches to supporting and sustaining working age adults’ learning across lengthening working lives and inevitable transitions they encounter and are required to negotiate. It is founded on the processes and findings of a three-phase practical inquiry into worklife learning and its implications for workplace and educations’ practice conducted in ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • The Standing of Vocational Education and the Occupations It Serves

    Current Concerns and Strategies For Enhancing That Standing

    Edited by Stephen Billett, Barbara Elisabeth Stalder, Vibe Aarkrog, Sarojni Choy, Steven Hodge, Anh Hai Le ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book addresses what is, perhaps, the single most important issue for vocational education; its relatively low standing in an era of high aspiration. The work explores the nature, extent and consequences for an educational sector that whilst having an increasingly important role in contemporary societies is seen to be of low standing across both countries with developed and developing ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Enriching Higher Education Students' Learning through Post-work Placement Interventions

    Edited by Stephen Billett, Janice Orrell, Denise Jackson, Faith Valencia-Forrester ...
    Series Book 28 - Professional and Practice-based Learning
    This edited volume offers a range of insights about, practices of, and findings associated with, enrichening higher education students’ learning by their engagement in educational processes during and after the completion of their work integrated education experiences. That is, using post-practicum intervention to augment and enrich those learning experiences. The collected contributions here draw ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Integrating Practice-based Experiences into Higher Education

    by Stephen Billett ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book advances understandings about and practices for effectively integrating practice-based (e.g. workplace) experiences in higher education programs. This issue is becoming of increasing salient because higher education programs globally are increasingly focussing on preparing students for specific occupations. Such imperatives are reflected in the cooperative education movement in North ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Augmenting Health and Social Care Students’ Clinical Learning Experiences

    Outcomes and Processes

    Edited by Stephen Billett, Jennifer Newton, Gary Rogers, Christy Noble ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This edited volume offers a range of insights about, practices of and findings associated with enrichening health and social care students’ learning by their engagement in educational processes during and after the completion of their practicum experiences in health and social care settings. That is, using post-practicum intervention to augment and enrich those learning experiences. The collected ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Practice-based Learning in Higher Education

    Jostling Cultures

    Edited by Monica Kennedy, Stephen Billett, Silvia Gherardi, Laurie Grealish ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book addresses issues confronting universities’ attempts to integrate practice-based learning in higher education curriculum, yet which reveals the jostling of cultures which exist within and amongst the academy, industry, government and professional bodies and other educational providers. The book engages theory in practices, and draws upon research highlighting the issues and transactions ... Read more

    $89.09 USD