Activity theory and workplace learning / guest editors: Yrjo Engestrom and Hannele Kerosuo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Engestrom, Yrjo.

Kerosuo, Hannele.

Series:

Journal of workplace learning ; v. 19, no. 6.

Journal of Workplace Learning ; 19, no. 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Employees--Training of.

Employees.

Occupational training.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (80 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bradford, England : Emerald Group Publishing, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Workplace learning and organizational learning as areas of inquiry stem from different and still quite separate disciplinary backgrounds and commitments. Workplace learning has largely emerged as an extension of educational research stepping beyond the confines of schools and other institutions of formal learning. The commitment of studies of workplace learning is commonly pedagogical: improvement of conditions and practices of learning and instruction in work settings. Organizational learning emerged as a sub-field of organization and management studies, trying to find explanatory mechanisms

Contents:

Cover; CONTENTS; Editorial advisory board; From workplace learning to inter-organizational learning and back: the contribution of activity theory; Inter-organizational learning across levels: an object-oriented approach; Workplace learning in the New Zealand apple industry network; Analysing third generation activity systems: labour-power, subject position and personal transformation; E-learning in a large organization

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-281-07916-2

9786611079161

1-84663-577-2

OCLC:

182548912