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  title info:
    title: Learning Through Practice
    sub title: Models, Traditions, Orientations and Approaches
  name:
    name part: Billett, Stephen.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XX, 288 p. online resource.
  abstract: Practice-based learning—the kind of education that comes from experiencing real work in real situations—has always been a prerequisite to qualification in professions such as medicine. However, there is growing interest in how practice-based models of learning can assist the initial preparation for and further development of skills for a wider range of occupations. Rather than being seen as a tool of first-time training, it is now viewed as a potentially important facet of professional development and life-long learning. This book provides perspectives on practice-based learning from a range of disciplines and fields of work. The collection here draws on a wide spectrum of perspectives to illustrate as well as to critically appraise approaches to practice-based learning. The book’s two sections first explore the conceptual foundations of learning through practice, and then provide detailed examples of its implementation. Long-standing practice-based approaches to learning have been used in many professions and trades. Indeed, admission to the trades and major professions (e.g. medicine, law, accountancy) can only be realised after completing extended periods of practice in authentic practice settings. However, the growing contemporary interest in using practice-based learning in more extensive contexts has arisen from concerns about the direct employability of graduates and the increasing focus on occupation-specific courses in both vocations and higher education. It is an especially urgent issue in an era of critical skill shortages, rapidly transforming work requirements and an aging workforce combined with a looming shortage of new workforce entrants. We must better understand how existing models of practice-based learning are enacted in order to identify how they can be applied to different kinds of employment and workplaces. The contributions to this volume explore ways in which learning through practice can be conceptualised, enacted, and appraised through an …
  table of contents: Series Foreword -- Series Editors’ Foreword -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1. Learning through Practice -- 1.1 Learning through Practice -- 1.2 Emerging and Growing Interest in Learning through Practice -- 1.3 Approaches to and Models of Learning through Practice -- 1.4 Section One: Conceptual Premises of Learning through Practice -- 1.5 Section Two: Instances of Practice -- 2. Learning in Praxis, Learning for Praxis -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Praxis and Theory -- 2.2.1 A Historical Perspective -- 2.2.2 A Phenomenological Perspective -- 2.3 Learning at/for Work: A Case from Fish Culture -- 2.4 Coda -- 3. Knowledge, Working Practices, and Learning -- 3.1 My Perspective on Knowledge -- 3.2 Learning Trajectories -- 3.3 The Construction of Professional Practices in the Workplace -- 3.4 How do People Learn at Work? -- 3.5 Transfer of Knowledge Between Contexts -- 3.6 Factors Affecting Learning at Work -- 3.7 The Role of the Manager in Supporting Learning -- 4. The Practices of Learning through Occupations -- 4.1 Learning for and through Practice -- 4.2 Historical Conceptions of Learning through Practice and their Worth -- 4.3 Participatory Practice: A Conception of Learning through Practice -- 4.4 Individuals’ Engagement, Agency, and Subjectivity -- Invitational Qualities -- 4.5 Intersubjectivity, Appropriation, and Extending Knowledge -- 4.6 Participation and Learning -- 5. Objectual Practice and Learning in Professional Work -- 5.1 Professional Work and Learning -- 5.2 New Contexts for Professional Work -- 5.3 Object-related Learning -- 5.4 The Study -- 5.5 Dynamics of Objectual Practice in Computer Engineering -- 5.5.1 Interplay between Explorative and Confirmative Practice -- 5.5.2 Linking Practitioners with Wider Knowledge Communities -- 5.5.3 Mediating Participation along Multiple Timescales -- 5.5.4 Facilitating Reflexive Learning -- 5.6 Concluding Remarks -- 6. Learning through and about Practice: A Lifeworld Perspective -- 6.1 A Need to Reexamine Learning throug…
  note: edited by Stephen Billett.
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Management
  subject:
    topic: Higher education
  subject:
    topic: Lifelong learning
  subject:
    topic: Adult education
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Professional & Vocational Education
  subject:
    topic: Education, general
  subject:
    topic: Management
  subject:
    topic: Lifelong Learning/Adult Education
  subject:
    topic: Learning & Instruction
  subject:
    topic: Higher Education
  classification: LC1051-1072
  classification: LC1041-1048
  classification: 370.113
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Professional and Practice-based Learning ; 1
  identifier: 9789048139392
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3939-2
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    record creation date: 100623
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