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Behnam Soltani; Karsten E. Zegwaard – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2024
To understand graduate employability, this paper uses a landscape of practice (LofP) lens, and methods including narrative frames, observations, and interviews to interpret capability development and identity construction of learners in a work-based learning masters program. It argues that learners enhance employability, capabilities, and…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Communities of Practice, Masters Programs, Ability
Gibson, Sara Henderson – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Today's businesses rely on the effective functioning of self-directed work teams to learn how to solve complex problems and take action. A key factor in a team's ability to perform in this manner is a group climate characterized by psychological safety. Psychological safety must often compete with a climate of evaluative pressure frequently found…
Descriptors: Safety, Program Effectiveness, Psychology, Content Analysis
Snelson, Donna Ayers – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Today the multidimensional global shortage of nurses is negatively impacting the work environment of hospital nurses and causing, in a cyclical fashion, decreasing work satisfaction, increasing nurse turnover, and decreasing patient outcomes. While strategies aimed at causation of the nursing shortage must be addressed, to support nursing until…
Descriptors: Credentials, Nursing Education, Qualitative Research, Job Satisfaction
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Billett, Stephen – Studies in Continuing Education, 1996
Workplace learning is goal-directed activity shaped by the context and needs of a particular community of practice. Learning in the workplace includes close guidance by experts and distant guidance from other workers and the physical environment. The activities and the guidance are key components of the workplace learning curriculum. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Experiential Learning, Learning Activities, Learning Processes
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Skelton, T. M. – Technical Communication: Journal of the Society for Technical Communication, 2002
Maintains that technical communicators can retain their place on product development teams by re-engineering project environments. Describes an experiential learning strategy in project management to help technical communicators work with other information technology (IT) practitioners. Examines the solutions the teams produced for three projects…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Experiential Learning, Higher Education, Industrial Psychology
Brown, Bettina Lankard – 2002
Exploring the relationship between generic skills (sometimes called employability skills) and career and technical education (CTE) requires asking these three questions: Are such skills taught in CTE? Can they be taught? Do employers value them over technical skills. A literature review of 14 books, reports, and journal articles concludes that…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Competency Based Education, Constructivism (Learning), Context Effect