Workplace pedagogic practices : A workplace study

Workplace pedagogic practices: Participatory factors in localised arrangements

Workplace pedagogic practices : Participation and learning

This paper advances conceptual tentative bases for understanding workplace pedagogic practices. It proposes that whether arising through everyday work activities or guided learning in workplaces, learning is shaped by workplace participatory practices. This learning is held to be co-participative: the reciprocal process of how the workplace affords participation and therefore learning, and how ...

Occupational sun protection: workplace culture, equipment provision and outdoor workers' characteristics.

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to describe outdoor workers' sun-protective practices, workplace sun-safety culture and sun-protective equipment provision; investigate the association of demographic, personal and occupational factors with sun-protective practices; and identify potential strategies for improving workers' sun protection. METHODS The present study used a clustered survey de...

From school to work and from work to school: information environments and transferring information literacy practices

Introduction. This study, based in a Scottish secondary school, aimed to examine the views of students who were completing work experience, on their information literacy practices, and the differences they found between the school and workplace information environments while on work experience. The views of guidance teachers were also explored. Method. The study used a constructivist grounded t...

Exploring the influence of workplace supports and relationships on safe medication practice: A pilot study of Australian graduate nurses.

BACKGROUND Despite the growing awareness of the benefits of positive workplace climates, unsupportive and disruptive workplace behaviours are widespread in health care organisations. Recent graduate nurses, who are often new to a workplace, are particularly vulnerable in unsupportive climates, and are also recognised to be at higher risk for medication errors. OBJECTIVES Investigate the assoc...