Improving Workplace Learning by Teaching Literature : Towards Wisdom / by Christine Angela Eastman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eastman, C. A. (Christine A.), Author.

Series:

SpringerBriefs in Education, 2211-193X

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Professional education.

Vocational education.

Learning, Psychology of.

Art--Study and teaching.

Art.

Professional and Vocational Education.

Instructional Psychology.

Creativity and Arts Education.

Local Subjects:

Professional and Vocational Education.

Instructional Psychology.

Creativity and Arts Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (124 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2016.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.

Summary:

This book investigates the integration of literary writing into work based or business writing. It proposes ways of how to help people with considerable work experience use literature to engage with the problems they face in their work. Many people like to read for pleasure, but their skills in reading could always be improved. This book makes an original contribution to the fields of education, work based learning and business by encouraging students to explore history, memoir, fiction, and non-fiction to model their own writing and widen their knowledge beyond the work place and their customary reading. Inside are onsite experiments with fiction and non-fiction prose that show how people in the workplace respond and grow from contact with significant literature and culture that relates broadly to their work. As a Coaching Master’s student observes: “I have not been a prolific reader. Ithas been a weakness and a gap. I have probably read more in the last year [during the project course] than I have read in the past twenty years. So that says something. My ability to attend to what in a book has weight or relevance has markedly improved. In the past I banked largely on my opinions because not being a prolific reader, I had to. It can be incredibly empowering to see that there are so many assets outside of my own mind. When something comes up now, I tend to weigh it. I am more specific about how I use words.”.

Contents:

Foreword; Contents; 1 Introduction; Abstract; References; 2 Opening up a World of Literature at Toshiba; Abstract; Introduction; Background and De nitions ; Work, Identity and Re ection ; Voice; The Value of the Humanities ; Phronêsis or Practical Wisdom ; Conclusion; References; 3 The Quest for Leadership at Wembley Stadium; Abstract; Introduction; "The Graduate" ; Background; Leadership at Wembley ; Leadership and Ethics ; Leadership and Creativity ; Stories and Public Voices ; Power; Antonio Gramsci ; Conclusion; References; 4 Halifax: The Cornerstone of Learning; Abstract; Introduction

Background and Context Literature and Liberty ; The Actual Materials ; The Business Plan-A Two-Way Street ; Babbitt Saves Banking: A Discussion on Literature ; Ethics and Trust ; Alan Sillitoe's Saturday Night, Sunday Morning and Niall Ferguson's The House of Rothschild: Money's ...; The Re ective Piece: An Opportunity to Tell One's Story, Albeit Brie y ; References; 5 Sofra Restaurant Group: The Untold Stories; Abstract; Introduction and Context ; The Success of Telling Stories ; Appreciating Stories ; Motivation and Interest ; Wisdom; References

6 Developing Criticality Through Reading NovelsAbstract; Introduction; The Value of Participation ; Babbitt: New Ways to See the World ; The Loneliness of the Lecturer-Stoner ; My Life as a Dog: Old Yeller ; The Value of Literature ; Concluding Remarks: Silver Wings into the Heavens and Full Mast into the Wind ; References

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

ISBN:

9783319290287

3319290282