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Factors Fostering Vocational Students' Workplace Learning Success in the Real Workplace Environment
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Nisula, Anna-Maija; Metso, Sari – Journal of Education and Work, 2019
The present paper proposes a conceptual model in which both personal and perceived workplace-related factors affect vocational students' workplace learning success in real workplace environments, with workplace learning success constituted by students' professional learning and satisfaction. We empirically tested the proposed model in two survey…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Workplace Learning, Work Environment, Student Satisfaction
How Multi/Interdisciplinarity Is Actualised in Work Organisation with Professional Employees Specialised in Single Disciplines: Two Case Studies of the High-Technology Industry
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Haapakorpi, Arja – Journal of Education and Work, 2018
Higher education is based on a disciplinary system and science-specific educational programmes, but multi/interdisciplinarity (MD/ID) knowledge, working methods and collaboration are becoming common in the workplace with complex tasks and digital work environments. This article will provide an insight into these issues by presenting a study of the…
Descriptors: Employees, Case Studies, Technological Advancement, Engineering
Expansive Learning at Work: Toward an Activity Theoretical Reconceptualization. [and] Contextualising a New Approach To Learning: Some Comments on Yrjo Engestrom's Theory of Expansive Learning.
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Engestrom, Yrjo; Young, Michael – Journal of Education and Work, 2001
Engestrom examines activity theory and expansive learning by describing Who are the subjects of learning? Why do they learn? What do they learn? and How do they learn? Presents five principles: activity system as the unit of analysis, multiple voices, historicity, contradictions as sources of change, and expansive transformation. Young provides…
Descriptors: Adults, Foreign Countries, Learning Processes, Learning Theories