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Overcoming Training Barriers in a Medium Size Fire Department: A Phenomenological Study
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Chris Paskett – ProQuest LLC, 2023
America's fire departments are busier than ever, responding to both emergency and non-emergency calls that have dramatically increased over the last several decades (National Fire Protection Association [NFPA], 2021b). This dissertation in practice analyzed the on-duty training model of a mid-sized fire department in the northwestern United…
Descriptors: Fire Protection, Safety Education, On the Job Training, Workplace Learning
Research Approaches on Workplace Learning: Insights from a Growing Field. Professional and Practice-Based Learning. Volume 31
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Harteis, Christian, Ed.; Gijbels, David, Ed.; Kyndt, Eva, Ed. – Professional and Practice-based Learning, 2022
The volume comprises a variety of research approaches that seek to explore and understand employees' learning and development through and for work. Working life reveals challenges through technological, economic and societal development that can only rudimentarily be addressed by formal education and training. Workplace learning becomes more and…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Employees, Professional Identity, Change
Practices and Strategies for Enhancing Learning through Collaboration between Vocational Teacher Training Institutions and Workplaces
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Arinaitwe, Dinavence – Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2021
The study aimed to identify and understand practices and strategies for enhancing learning through collaboration among a master's degree in vocational pedagogy (MVP) program, vocational teacher training institutions (VTIs), and workplaces. Using in-depth semi-structured individual and focus group interviews, data were obtained from administrators,…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Mentors, Masters Programs, Graduate Students
How Multi-Levels of Individual and Team Learning Interact in a Public Healthcare Organisation: A Conceptual Framework
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Doyle, Louise; Kelliher, Felicity; Harrington, Denis – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2016
The aim of this paper is to review the relevant literature on organisational learning and offer a preliminary conceptual framework as a basis to explore how the multi-levels of individual learning and team learning interact in a public healthcare organisation. The organisational learning literature highlights a need for further understanding of…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Workplace Learning, Active Learning, Teamwork
Participative Work Design in Lean Production: A Strategy for Dissolving the Paradox between Standardized Work and Team Proactivity by Stimulating Team Learning?
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Lantz, Annika; Hansen, Niklas; Antoni, Conny – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore job design mechanisms that enhance team proactivity within a lean production system where autonomy is uttermost restricted. We propose and test a model where the team learning process of building shared meaning of work mediates the relationship between team participative decision-making, inter team…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Teamwork, Participative Decision Making, Manufacturing Industry
Learning Spaces and Collaborative Work: Barriers or Supports?
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King, Hayley – Higher Education Research and Development, 2016
Drawing on 18 months of fieldwork, this article discusses the use of physical, virtual and social space to support collaborative work in translator education programs. The study adopted a contrastive ethnography approach that incorporated single- and multiple-case design rationales for site selection. Extended observation, informal chats and…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Workplace Learning, Employees, Lifelong Learning