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Teacher Educators' Professional Journeys: Pedagogical and Systemic Issues Affecting Role Perceptions
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Braund, Martin – Africa Education Review, 2015
Teacher educators in many countries share similar concerns as they aspire to improve education for learners and stimulate interest in further study and careers. The roles and professional development of school teachers have been researched, but little attention has been given to teacher educators. Using a small-scale, illuminative study in England…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Performance Factors, Teacher Promotion, Faculty Development
Factors Promoting Vocational Students' Learning at Work: Study on Student Experiences
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Virtanen, Anne; Tynjälä, Päivi; Eteläpelto, Anneli – Journal of Education and Work, 2014
In order to promote effective pedagogical practices for students' work-based learning, we need to understand better how students' learning at work can be supported. This paper examines the factors explaining students' workplace learning (WPL) outcomes, addressing three aspects: (1) student-related individual factors, (2) social and…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Performance Factors, Student Experience, Workplace Learning
Educational Leadership for E-Learning in the Healthcare Workplace
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Fahlman, Dorothy – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2012
Effective educational leadership can make a difference in the resolution of complex issues that impact today's demand-driven educational marketplace. The ongoing professional and skill development needs of human health resources may be best managed through distributed strategic leadership blended with servant leadership. Together these two…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Skill Development, Instructional Leadership, Workplace Learning
Moral Learning for the Workplace: A Role for VET
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James, Ian – International Journal of Training Research, 2012
The paper explores ways that vocational education and training (VET) might become involved in the development of moral "know-how", ready for workplace practice. The primary concern here is the transformation of earlier-learnt ethical principles to their applied moral behaviour, essential for appropriate practice within workplace…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Ethics, Foreign Countries, Construction Industry
Personal Learning Environments in the Workplace: An Exploratory Study into the Key Business Decision Factors
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Chatterjee, Arunangsu; Law, Effie Lai-Chong; Mikroyannidis, Alexander; Owen, Glyn; Velasco, Karen – International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments, 2013
Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) have emerged as a solution to the need of learners for open and easily customisable learning environments. PLEs essentially hand complete control over the learning process to the learner. However, this learning model is not fully compatible with learning in the workplace, which is influenced by certain…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Educational Environment, Workplace Learning, Work Environment
Participatory Practices at Work
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Billett, Stephen; Barker, Michelle; Hernon-Tinning, Bernie – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2004
This article discusses workplace participatory practices: the reciprocal process of engaging in and learning through work. The reciprocity between the affordance of the workplace (its invitational qualities) and individuals' engagement in the workplace is proposed as a means of understanding how learning through work proceeds. How workplaces…
Descriptors: Work Environment, Educational Practices, Workplace Learning, Learning Processes