Published:Professional and Practice-based Learning
(2024)
This book elaborates on the project of continuing education and training (CET), its purposes, practices and prospects for future models and approaches. As such, it also seeks to elaborate the needs for a means by which this important educational sector can achieve its goals both now, and in the near…
Published:Professional and Practice-based Learning
(2023)
Imperatives associated with learning across working life (i.e., worklife learning) in contemporary societies are now directed towards achieving important individual, occupational, community, and societal goals. Achieving these goals necessitate understanding more fully how that learning is realised …
Published:Professional and Practice-based Learning
(2023)
Knowing more fully what constitutes learning across working life and how negotiating transitions might be best supported and guided is important for working age adults, their workplaces, and communities. Central to that negotiation are the experiences that adults are afforded and how they engage wit…
Published:Professional and Practice-based Learning
(2023)
To explain the processes of learning across working life that support the employability of workers in times of change and uncertainty, it is necessary to account for the complex of factors that shape that learning. Conceptually, these constitute factors comprising those sourced in, suggested and pro…
Published:Professional and Practice-based Learning
(2022)
This chapter discusses the concept of professional growth in the context of workplace learning. Based on an overview of the relevant research, professional growth is seen as an overall developmental process that takes place during one’s career and lifespan and understood as a term that overlaps with…
Published:Professional and Practice-based Learning
(2022)
Apprenticeships are an important way of acquiring vocational skills and competences. However, an individual will decide how and if they participate in vocational learning processes also considering the appreciation of this type of learning. From the perspective of the individual, appreciation depend…
Published:Professional and Practice-based Learning
(2022)
Employees increasingly need to keep pace with the dynamics of the labor market to be professionally successful in the long term. This requires flexibility in shaping one’s employment biography by continuously adapting one’s skills portfolio to the current labor market conditions. 21st century skills…
Published:Professional and Practice-based Learning
(2022)
Language use in vocational education is a little studied area. The Language in Trades Education project investigated the complexity of this language using a multi-pronged approach. It involved an examination of written and spoken texts in four trades at the Wellington Institute of Technology (WelTec…
Published:Professional and Practice-based Learning
(2022)
Work teams are crucial entities in all kinds of organizations for their contribution to the delivery and quality of products and services. Because of changes in society, such as demands of clients and digitization, work teams need to always further develop. Team learning is essential for the quality…
Published:Professional and Practice-based Learning
(2022)
Project-based learning (PBL), sometimes augmented or integrated with inquiry or problem-based learning, is a staple pedagogical approach in VET. PBL is not just ‘learning by doing’ or the completion or production of a project. Instead, PBL requires structured and planned learning activities, encoura…
Published:Professional and Practice-based Learning
(2022)
In this chapter, we set forward a social network perspective on professional learning and development. The chapter stresses that how individuals learn and develop in and around the workplace is significantly affected by the way they are tied into a larger web of social connections. We reflect on the…
Published:Professional and Practice-based Learning
(2022)
Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) has a well-established vocational education and training (VET) system that contributes towards the country’s economic standing and social outcomes. As in many countries, however, current and imminent challenges have led to a reconsideration and reconfiguration of our system…
Published:Professional and Practice-based Learning
(2022)
This chapter is intended to provide insight into the design and early piloting of Aotearoa New Zealand’s (NZ) first degree-level apprenticeship. Despite the growing need for engineering technologists nationally, current enrolments for this polytechnic degree nationwide are declining. This trend, alo…
Published:Professional and Practice-based Learning
(2022)
In this chapter I explore the Reform of Vocational Education (RoVE) programme as a policy and system-level phenomenon. These reforms represent the most significant change in 30 years to vocational education and training (VET) in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ). In basic structural terms, they involve the …
Published:Professional and Practice-based Learning
(2022)
This article is based on research undertaken for the Commonwealth of Learning on the combination of open and distance learning and vocational workplace-based learning in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) (Alkema and Neal, ODL and workplace learning TVET programmes in New Zealand. Commonwealth of Learning, B…
Published:Professional and Practice-based Learning
(2022)
This chapter is the second of two in this volume that directly engage with the Reform of Vocational Education (RoVE) programme. Where the previous chapter outlined the historical context for RoVE and described the changes themselves, this chapter explores the potential implications of the reforms fo…
Published:Professional and Practice-based Learning
(2022)
Research in the area of professional learning and development is faced with particular empirical and methodological challenges due to its nature and contexts. This chapter introduces and briefly describes these challenges. It then gives an overview of each of the methods/approaches (i.e., chapters) …
Published:Professional and Practice-based Learning
(2022)
In this chapter, we introduce the ethnographic research methodology as a starting point in organisational and workplace learning research. In approaching learning at work as a practice-based and communal phenomenon, this strategy has been found suitable for studying its nature and practices. We focu…
Published:Professional and Practice-based Learning
(2022)
A traditional approach to test complex relationships between different unobserved constructs included in theoretical models is to apply covariance-based structural equation modelling (CB-SEM). This chapter aims at introducing an alternative approach to estimating structural equation models that has …
Published:Professional and Practice-based Learning
(2022)
Design-based research is an approach to develop new theories and educational practices in a context-sensitive manner. The aim of this chapter is to introduce design-based research using the example of a concrete design research project. The combination of theory building and practical design is cent…
