Working to Learn

Abstract

The workplace is a major site for learning in the current learning society and this collection considers the changing nature of work and the implications of this for learning and skills requirements of individuals, strategies for meeting these requirements and the consequences of this for individual employees, the workplace, employers, educators, and society. The chapters are: The significance of workplace learning for a 'learning society' / Karen Evans and Helen Rainbird; Learning careers: conceptualizing lifelong work-based learning / Phil Hodkinson and Martin Bloomer; Contrasting approaches to the role of qualifications in the promotion of lifelong learning / Michael Young; The interaction between qualifications and work-based learning / Michael Eraut; The challenges of 'making learning visible': problems and issues in recognizing tacit skills and key competencies / Karen Evans; Developing pedagogies for the contemporary workplace / Alison Fuller and Lorna Unwin; An approach to learning at, for and through the workplace: a trade union case study / Jim Sutherland; Education and training for small and medium-sized enterprises / Peter Senker; The dynamics of workplace learning: the role of work organizations / David Ashton; Putting skills in their place: the regional pattern of work skills in Britain / Alan Felstead; Policy intervention for a vibrant work-based route - or when policy hits reality's fan (again) / Ewart Keep and Jonathan Payne; No rights, just responsibilities: individual demand for continuing training / Helen Rainbird; Six challenges for the future / Working to Learn Group: Ewart Keep, Helen Rainbird, Karen Evans, Lorna Unwin, Phil Hodkinson and Peter Senker.