Individual and Social Influences on Professional Learning Supporting the Acquisition and Maintenance of Expertise /

• Main Authors: Gruber, Hans (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Harteis, Christian (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Professional and Practice-based Learning, 24
• Subjects: Professional education.; Vocational education.; Learning.; Instruction.; Maturation (Psychology).; Educational psychology.; Education-Psychology.; Career education.; Professional & Vocational Education.; Learning & Instruction.; Personal Development.; Educational Psychology.; Career Skills.

This book examines professional learning and relates it to the acquisition of expertise, and the influence of individuals. Professional learning, as discussed in the book, comprises all kinds of occupational domains because employment and paid work usually follow the achievement principle, i.e. work...

Table of Contents:

• Series editors' foreword
• Preface
• Chapter 1 Supporting the acquisition of expertise: A challenge for research
• Chapter 2 Meta-theoretical perspective on workplace learning research
• Chapter 3 The successful individual
• Chapter 4 The impeded individual
• Chapter 5 Supporting the acquisition of expertise: Fostering individual development and creating professional communities
• Chapter 6 Supporting the maintenance of expertise
• Chapter 7 i-PPP: A model of professional learning.