Source:Working to Learn: Transforming Learning in the Workplace
(2004)
In the current UK policy context, work-based learning and lifelong learning are seen as closely related. Despite the rather broader rhetoric of the introduction to the Learning Age White Paper (DfEE, 1998), both are primarily seen as necessary parts of the government’s strategy to increase employabi…
Source:Working to Learn: Transforming Learning in the Workplace
(2004)
The relatively recent recognition by social scientists that the workplace is a major site for learning is stimulating researchers from different disciplinary backgrounds to investigate the nature of this learning within the context of changing workplace conditions. As Stern and Sommerlad (1999:1) ar…
Source:The Struggle for the American Curriculum 1893–1958, Third Edition
(2004)
Published in 1987, the first edition of The Struggle for the American Curriculum was a classic in curriculum studies and in the history of education. This new third edition is thoroughly revised and updated, and includes two new chapters on the renewed attacks on the subject curriculum in the 1940s …
Source:At the Interface: Probing the Boundaries
(2004)
Information and communications technologies (ICT) are central to the lifelong learning policy in the UK. Considerable public expenditure continues to be applied to the creation of on-line learning and on-line learner information services. These are seen as having a major role in stimulating learning…
This study determined the reliability of ratings and consistency of descriptions generated by experienced field instructors using only their acquired practice wisdom as a framework to evaluate students. Ten field instructors independently divided 20 student vignettes into as many categories as neces…
Source:Journal of Computer Assisted Learning
(2004)
The purpose of this study, in an environment of Internet project-based learning, is to undertake research on the effects of thinking styles on learning transfer. In this study, we establish an environment that incorporates project-based learning and Internet. Within this environment, we divide our s…
