Workplace learning as postmodernist enactment: a model from dementia

Teacher learning as workplace learning

Against the background of increasing attention in teacher professional development programs for situating teacher learning in the workplace, an overview is given of what is known in general and educational workplace learning literature on the characterics and conditions of the workplace. Although workplace learning potentially has several advantages, the six workplace factors identitied for lea...

Learning from text benefits from enactment.

Classical studies on enactment have highlighted the beneficial effects of gestures performed in the encoding phase on memory for words and sentences, for both adults and children. In the present investigation, we focused on the role of enactment for learning from scientific texts among primary-school children. We assumed that enactment would favor the construction of a mental model of the text,...

Towards a Model of Workplace Learning: The Learning Curriculum

Learning from a Computer Workplace Simulation

Workplaces are rapidly changing, placing increased cognitive demands upon workers. The use of computer workplace simulations has been proposed to help students successfully make the transition from school to work. In this study, we examined what kinds of learning occurred when students used a computer workplace simulation called Court Square Community Bank. We hypothesized that three types of l...

Learning as a Social Enactment of the Small Firm Owner/manager Learning as a Social Enactment of the Small Firm Owner/manager

Paper Type: Refereed paper Objectives: One of the key influencing elements in the small firm on the learning process is that of the owner/manager as a principle employee, having both the power and legitimacy to influence firm practices. The paper’s perspective is connected to the belief that learning stems from the participation of individuals in complex social activities, by recognising that p...