Supporting Learning Across Working Life: Models, Processes and Practices [Hardcover]

This volume considers, rethinks and reorganizes how support for learning across working lifecan be best conceptualized, organized and enacted. It considers educational and learning support processes that include approaches thatfit well within working lives and workplaces, and support work and learning asa co-occurrence. These are the key focuses for individual and collectivecontributions to this edited volume, which provide discussions about whatconstitutes learning across working lives and how this differs from lifelonglearning and lifelong education. Accounts of learning across the working livesof social workers, doctors working in hospitals and in general practice,teaching, aviation, nursing, mining, aged care and more. These accounts advancea range of ways in which workers learning across working lives is beingsupported and how this support is also linked to other changes, such as to theoccupational practice in which they engage.

Section1  Supporting learning across working life.- Chapter One: Conceptualizing learning acrossworking life, provisions of support and purposes.- Section2 - Models, processes and practices for supporting lengthening working lives internationally.- ChapterTwo: Employee strategies in organizing professional development.- ChapterThree: Learning to work together through talk: Continuing professionaldevelopment in medicine.- ChapterFour: Organizing for deliberate practice through workplace reflection.- Chapter Five: A sociocultural model for mid-career post-secondary teacherprofessional learning.- ChapterSix: Driving forces of welfare innovation: Explaining interrelations betweeninnovation and professional development.- Chapter Seven: On nurses learning from errorsat work.- Chapter Eight: Sustaining and transforming thepractice of communities: Developing professionals working practices.- Chapterló¾