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  • Learning Through Work

    Practices, Purposes and Outcomes

    by Stephen Billett ...
    Drawing on three decades of practical investigations, this book establishes new understandings about the importance of learning through work, outlining its purposes, contributions, conceptions and the curriculum, pedagogical and personal practices that shape its effectiveness.Against views proposing it as being informal and leading to concrete outcomes, this volume presents learning through work ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • Learning In The Workplace

    Strategies for effective practice

    by Stephen Billett ...
    Learning in the workplace has come of age with the publication of this book. It shows the way for a new level of sophistication in the ways learning and work are treated. And it opens new territory for exploration in the world of learning throughout life.David Boud, University of Technology, SydneyStephen Billett provides a comprehensive and practical model, well-grounded in theory and research, ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • Mimetic Learning at Work

    Learning in the Circumstances of Practice

    by Stephen Billett ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    The concept of mimetic learning at work is outlined and elaborated in this text. That elaboration consists of an account of how securing occupational capacities has been primary associated with learning processes and an explanation of those processes. Much, and probably most, of the learning and development across individuals working lives occurs outside of circumstances of direct guidance or ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Integrating Practice-based Experiences into Higher Education

    by Stephen Billett ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book advances understandings about and practices for effectively integrating practice-based (e.g. workplace) experiences in higher education programs. This issue is becoming of increasing salient because higher education programs globally are increasingly focussing on preparing students for specific occupations. Such imperatives are reflected in the cooperative education movement in North ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Vocational Education

    Purposes, Traditions and Prospects

    by Stephen Billett ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book discusses what constitutes vocational education as well as its key purposes, objects, formation and practices. In short, it seeks to outline and elaborate the nature of the project of vocational education. It addresses a significant gap in the available literature by providing a single text that elaborates the scope and diversity of the sector, its key objectives (i.e. vocations and ... Read more

    $204.99 CAD

  • Practice-based Learning in Higher Education

    Jostling Cultures

    Edited by Monica Kennedy, Stephen Billett, Silvia Gherardi, Laurie Grealish ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book addresses issues confronting universities’ attempts to integrate practice-based learning in higher education curriculum, yet which reveals the jostling of cultures which exist within and amongst the academy, industry, government and professional bodies and other educational providers. The book engages theory in practices, and draws upon research highlighting the issues and transactions ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Continuing Education and Training

    Purposes, Practices and Futures

    by Stephen Richard Billett, Anthony Leow, Anh Hai Le ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    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 future. Often seen as a supplementary or additional educational sector, CET is gaining increased ... Read more

    $192.19 CAD

  • The Standing of Vocational Education and the Occupations It Serves

    Current Concerns and Strategies For Enhancing That Standing

    Edited by Stephen Billett, Barbara Elisabeth Stalder, Vibe Aarkrog, Sarojni Choy, Steven Hodge, Anh Hai Le ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book addresses what is, perhaps, the single most important issue for vocational education; its relatively low standing in an era of high aspiration. The work explores the nature, extent and consequences for an educational sector that whilst having an increasingly important role in contemporary societies is seen to be of low standing across both countries with developed and developing ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • Sustaining Employability Through Work-life Learning

    Practices and Policies

    Edited by Stephen Billett, Henning Salling Olesen, Laurent Filliettaz ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book seeks to advance understandings of and approaches to supporting and sustaining working age adults’ learning across lengthening working lives and inevitable transitions they encounter and are required to negotiate. It is founded on the processes and findings of a three-phase practical inquiry into worklife learning and its implications for workplace and educations’ practice conducted in ... Read more

    $217.99 CAD

  • Wisdom in Practice

    Conceptions, Perspectives and Development

    Edited by Stephen Billett, Hannu L. T. Heikkinen, Päivi Tynjälä, Maarit Virolainen ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This open access book presents the findings of a research project conducted through the auspices of the Wisdom in Practice (WiP) programme funded by the Research Council of Finland. The WiP programme involved researchers from a range of academic fields, including education, philosophy, and psychology, internationally, and comprises a multi-year project with three distinct but interrelated ... Read more

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  • Augmenting Health and Social Care Students’ Clinical Learning Experiences

    Outcomes and Processes

    Edited by Stephen Billett, Jennifer Newton, Gary Rogers, Christy Noble ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This edited volume offers a range of insights about, practices of and findings associated with enrichening health and social care students’ learning by their engagement in educational processes during and after the completion of their practicum experiences in health and social care settings. That is, using post-practicum intervention to augment and enrich those learning experiences. The collected ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Developing Learning Professionals

    Integrating Experiences in University and Practice Settings

    Edited by Stephen Billett, Amanda J. Henderson ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    In higher education institutions across the globe, there is a growing interest in integrating classroom learning with experience in practice settings. This interest is the result of an increased emphasis on courses that prepare students for specific occupations in the hopes that upon graduation students will be job-ready.Developing Learning Professionals: Integrating Experiences in University and ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD