Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate women small business owners' informal
learning behaviour. There is limited qualitative research that examines women small …

The study investigates design engineers' and product developers' learning through their
work. The aim was to approach designers' work practice and their learning in the course of it …

This conceptual paper draws upon the theory of the risk society to develop three
propositions that argue that Human resource development (HRD) and sustainability lie in a …

Purpose–The paper seeks to investigate design engineers' and product developers'
learning through their work. The aim was to approach designers' work practice and their …

Professional practice can be conceptualised holistically, and in fact during the 1990s the
'Australian model'of integrated or holistic competence emerged empirically. This piece …

Taking an approach to learning in the workplace as a phenomenon situated and
accumulated in the course of work activities and everyday practice, the purpose of this study …

When education and training policy-makers push on with competency structures, as they
have been doing in many nations since the early 1990s, they typically have in mind an …

In Finnish VET, students' work experience is explicitly defined as workplace learning,
instead of the practice of already learnt skills. Therefore, vocational students' learning …

Background and Purpose: Given the turbulent and highly contested environment in which
professional coaches work, a prime concern to coach developers is how coaches learn their …

In todayâe (tm) s complex and ever-changing world it has become obvious that even highly
developed knowledge and skills are no longer sufficient to meet new challenges, situations …