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  • Apprenticeship: Towards a New Paradigm of Learning

    Edited by Patrick Ainley, Helen Rainbird ...
    In the light of changes the government has launched as part of its welfare to work initiatives, this text explores apprenticeship. The authors set the historical context and discuss the theoretical and practical aspects of acquiring the necessary knowledge and skills for competence. ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Workplace Learning in Context

    Edited by Alison Fuller, Anne Munro, Helen Rainbird ...
    As policy makers increasingly focus on workplace learning as a way of improving organizational performance, the debate about the learning organization has grown. Counterbalancing the often over-optimistic assumptions made about the future of work and learning, this book argues that without a contextualized analysis of the field, our understanding of the learning environment is limited. It ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • Improving Workplace Learning

    by Karen Evans, Phil Hodkinson, Helen Rainbird, Lorna Unwin ...
    Series series Improving Learning
    Across the western world, there is a growing awareness of the importance of workplace learning, seen at the level of national and international policy, as well as in the developing practices of employers, training providers and Trades Unions. Authoritative, accessible, and appealing, it presents key findings on work-based learning, bringing together conclusions and investigating a variety of ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • Education and Work in Great Britain, Germany and Italy

    Edited by Annette Jobert, Catherine Marry, Helen Rainbird, Lucie Tanguy ...
    Series series Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education
    This volume examines the multiple connections between education, broadly defined, and work, through an analysis of the literature on the transition from school to work, on vocational training and on the labour market. It shows that concepts such as skill, unemployment rates, young people and the transition from school to work are socially constructed and are thought about in ways which are ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Resourcing Early Learners

    New Networks, New Actors

    by Sue Nichols, Jennifer Rowsell, Helen Nixon, Sophia Rainbird ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    The landscape of early childhood education and care is changing. Governments world-wide are assuming increasing authority in relation to child-rearing in the years before school entry, beyond the traditional role in assisting parents to do the best they can by their children. As part of a social agenda aimed at forming citizens well prepared to play an active part in a globalised knowledge economy ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

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  • Learning Outside the Academy

    International Research Perspectives on Lifelong Learning

    Edited by Richard Edwards, Jim Gallacher, Susan Whittaker ...
    This book weaves together different strands of research in the area of lifelong learning that concentrates particularly on learning in alternative settings and ways, such experiential learning and informal and community learning. Drawing upon international research, the book examines how these strands of research can contribute to each other.The contributions to this book are based on material ... Read more

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  • Beyond Technology

    Children's Learning in the Age of Digital Culture

    by David Buckingham ...
    Beyond Technology offers a challenging new analysis of learning, young people and digital media. Disputing both utopian fantasies about the transformation of education and exaggerated fears about the corruption of childhood innocence, it offers a level-headed analysis of the impact of these new media on learning, drawing on a wide range of critical research.Buckingham argues that there is now a ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Teaching, Learning and Research in Higher Education

    A Critical Approach

    by Mark Tennant, Cathi McMullen, Dan Kaczynski ...
    Teaching, Learning and Research in Higher Education offers a combination of critical perspectives and practical advice that is ideally suited for individuals interested in enhancing their practice through analysis and critique. The aim is to promote a critical understanding of one’s own practices: to foster personal and professional formation through a reflexive engagement with one's environment ... Read more

    $112.99 CAD

  • The Primary School in Changing Times

    The Australian Experience

    Edited by Tony Townsend ...
    Following substantial changes throughout the Australian education system, primary schools are no longer in the protected position of having a regulated flow of clients, a pre-determined curriculum and marginal levels of staff development. Recent moves have brought new or increased responsibilities for all schools in areas such as: *curriculum and policy development *staff development *monitoring ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Doing Work Based Research

    Approaches to Enquiry for Insider-Researchers

    by Carol Costley, Paul Gibbs, Geoffrey C Elliott ...
    With the growth of work based learning and practitioner research this book leads the way by addressing key issues faced by ′insider-researchers′ - learners, practitioners and managers doing research projects in the organizations and communities in which they themselves work, or where they are already familiar with the setting.The authors explore the implications of these research contexts, and ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Cross-Cultural Management in Work Organisations

    by Ray French ...
    Formerly rooted firmly in the domain of anthropology, the topic of culture has shifted over the last thirty-five years to become an important component of business and management as organisations have become global. As companies outsource some of their work to other countries, or as employees migrate to new locations, culture can impact upon things such as attitudes to authority, differences in ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Disciplining and Drafting or 21st Century Learning?

    by Rachel Bolstad,Jane Gilbert ...
    Will todays curriculum prepare secondary school students for life in the 21st century? ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD