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How IT Workers Learn in the Workplace
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Ha, Tak S. – Studies in Continuing Education, 2008
This paper describes a research project investigating the workplace learning experience of information technology (IT) workers in Hong Kong. The research project explored in depth the workplace learning experiences of 65 IT workers from three different work sites. It went beyond the identification of workplace learning methods and resources…
Descriptors: Research Projects, Information Technology, Learning Processes, Foreign Countries
The Casualisation of Teaching and the Subject at Risk
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Percy, Alisa; Beaumont, Rosemary – Studies in Continuing Education, 2008
The casualisation of teaching in Australian higher education has come to be problematised as a risk to the quality of teaching and learning. However, the potential and location of risk, and therefore what constitutes an appropriate institutional intervention, requires interrogation as universities comply with the various regulations that, on the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Learning Experience, Political Issues, Teaching Methods
Understanding Work, Learning and the Remaking of Cultural Practices
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Billett, Stephen; Smith, Raymond; Barker, Michelle – Studies in Continuing Education, 2005
This paper focuses on dualities in both the process and outcomes of participation in work. First, the process of participation in work activities and interactions draws on contributions of both individuals and the social world in ways that are variably interdependent, that is, relational. The affordances of workplaces shape the array of…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Job Satisfaction, Work Environment, Work Experience