Books in the Professional and Practice-based Learning series

In this book, contemporary teaching and learning approaches and strategies, as derived through practice-based participatory research, are used to highlight and discuss pragmatic solutions to facilitate the learning and teaching of trade skills, knowledge and dispositions.

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.

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.

This book explores important questions about the relationship between professional practice and learning, and implications of this for how we understand professional expertise.

This book analyses the experiences of professionals as they continue to learn at work. Although it focuses on learning in the health professions, it draws on research into continuing learning from other caring professions such as education and social services.

This volume brings together both political and educational scientists. While educational research literature has so far not systematically addressed the tool of simulations of decision-making, political scientists have hardly used insights from research on assessment or on motivation and interest of students. Almost all political science publications on simulations merely discuss how to implement the tool in class and fall short of providing evidence of the effects on student outcomes such as increased interest and performance. Combining the two disciplines is mutually enriching. Political science benefits from state of the art educational science measuring and testing of the claims made by the proponents of simulations, while educational sciences adds the systematic analysis of simulations of decision-making to their list of empirical objects, which also adds insights to the theories on the affective component of student learning. It is the explicit aim of the volume to address how simulating decision-making environments fosters learning. Implications for research and practice regarding student learning are addressed in all chapters.

This book explores and progresses the concept of negotiation as a means of describing and explaining individuals' learning in work.

This book examines professional learning and relates it to the acquisition of expertise, and the influence of individuals.

This book shares a range of examples where international students have undertaken a work placement, practicum, internship or participated in work integrated learning.

This book, by combining sociocultural, material, cognitive and embodied perspectives on human knowing, offers a new and powerful conceptualisation of epistemic fluency - a capacity that underpins knowledgeable professional action and innovation. Using results from empirical studies of professional education programs, the book sheds light on practical ways in which the development of epistemic fluency can be recognised and supported - in higher education and in the transition to work.The book provides a broader and deeper conception of epistemic fluency than previously available in the literature. Epistemic fluency involves a set of capabilities that allow people to recognize and participate in different ways of knowing. Such people are adept at combining different kinds of specialised and context-dependent knowledge and at reconfiguring their work environment to see problems and solutions anew.In practical terms, the book addresses the following kinds of questions. What does it take to be a productive member of a multidisciplinary team working on a complex problem? What enables a person to integrate different types and fields of knowledge, indeed different ways of knowing, in order to make some well-founded decisions and take actions in the world? What personal knowledge resources are entailed in analysing a problem and describing an innovative solution, such that the innovation can be shared in an organization or professional community? How do people get better at these things; and how can teachers in higher education help students develop these valued capacities? The answers to these questions are central to a thorough understanding of what it means to become an effective knowledge worker and resourceful professional.

This book takes a fresh look at professional practice and professional education.

This volume considers, rethinks and reorganizes how support for learning across working lifecan be best conceptualized, organized and enacted. It considers educational and learning support processes that include approaches thatfit well within working lives and workplaces, and support work and learning asa co-occurrence.

This book provides a general approach to elaborate and analyze learning processes within work environments. It explores analysis on the boundary between working and learning in various contexts and with various methodological approaches.

This book discusses how the Dutch vocational education system has undergone significant waves of reform driven by global imperatives, national concerns and governmental policy goals.

The latest developments in information and communication technology seem to open new potential, and the crucial question arises which kind of work can be replaced by technology?

This volume considers, rethinks and reorganizes how support for learning across working lifecan be best conceptualized, organized and enacted. It considers educational and learning support processes that include approaches thatfit well within working lives and workplaces, and support work and learning asa co-occurrence.

This book shares a range of examples where international students have undertaken a work placement, practicum, internship or participated in work integrated learning.

Although the book strongly focuses on research originating in the field of workplace learning, its contents may be of interest to researchers from other scientific domains, such as socio-cognitive and development psychology, organisational behaviour, leadership, economics, life-course research, and philosophy.

This book discusses how the Dutch vocational education system has undergone significant waves of reform driven by global imperatives, national concerns and governmental policy goals.

Discourses on Professional Learning

This book draws on a 4-year study of boundaries between university-based professional education and professional practice, analysing the epistemic nature of professional work and identifying sources of capability needed for people to engage successfully in it.