Margaret Malloch & Len Cairns 
The SAGE Handbook of Workplace Learning 

This Handbook provides a state-of-the art overview of the field of workplace learning from a global perspective. The authors are all well-placed theoreticians, researchers, and practitioners in this burgeoning field, which cuts across higher education, vocational education and training, post-compulsory secondary schooling, and lifelong education. The volume provides a broad-based, yet incisive analysis of the range of theory, research, and practical developments in workplace learning.

The editors draw together the three essential areas of Theory; Research and Practice; and Issues and Futures in the field of Workplace Learning. In addition, final chapters include recommendations for further development.

Key researchers and writers in the field have approached workplaces as the base of learning about work, that is, work-based learning. There has also been emerging interest in variations of this idea such as learning about, through, and at work. Many of the theoretical discussions have centred on adult learning and some on learners managing their own learning, with emphasis on aspects such as communities of practice and self directed learning.

In Europe and Australia, early work in the field was often linked to the Vocational Education and Training (VET) traditions with concerns around skills, competencies and ′on the job′ learning. The idea that learning and workplaces had more to do with real lifelong and lifewide aspects than traditional 'training’ regimens has emerged in the last decade. Since the mid 1990s, the field has grown world-wide as an area of theory, research, and practical work that has not only expanded the interest but has also legitimized the area as a field of study, reflection, and progress.

The SAGE Handbook of Workplace Learning draws together a wide range of views, theoretical dispositions, and assertions and provides a leading-edge presentation by key writers and researchers with insight into the field and its current state. It is a resource for researchers and academics interested in the scope and breadth of Workplace Learning..

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PART ONE: THEORY

Theories of Work, Place and Learning: New Directions – Len Cairns and Margaret Malloch

Theories of Workplace Learning – Paul Hager

Workplaces and Learning – Knud Illeris

Workplace Learning and the Organization – Alison Fuller and Lorna Unwin

Subjectivity, Self and Personal Agency in Learning Through and for Work – Stephen Billet

Learning in the Workplace: Communities of Practice and Beyond – Len Cairns

Activity Theory and Learning at Work – Yrjo Engestrom

Informal Learning at Work: Conditions, Processes and Logics – Per Erik Ellstrom

Towards a Meta-Theory of Learning and Performance – Darlene Russ-Eft

Knowledge and Workplace Learning – Nicholas M Allix

Rethinking Work-Based Learning: For Education Professionals and Professionals Who Educate – Karen Evans, David Guile and Judy Harris

PART TWO: RESEARCH AND PRACTICE

Researching Workplace Learning: An Overview and Critique – Peter H Sawchuck

How Researching Learning at Work can Lead to Tools for Enhancing Learning – Michael Eraut

Researching Workplace Learning in the United States – Victoria Marsick, Karen Watkins and Bridget N O′Connor

Researching Workplace Learning in Australia – Nicky Solomon and David Boud

Researching Workplace Learning in Europe – Hans Gruber and Christian Harteis

Initiatives in VET and Workplace Learning: A Korean Perspective – Sang-Duk Choi

Age Management in Organisations in the European Union – Gerhard Naegele and Alan Walker

Work and Learning: From Schools to Workplaces – Richard D Lakes

Competency-based Training and its Impact on Workplace Learning in Australia – Allie Clemans and Peter Rushbrook

Work-related Learning in the United States: Past Practices, Paradigm Shifts, and Policies of Partnerships – John M Dirkx

Workplace Learning in East Africa: A Case Study – Martin Mulder and Judith Gulikers

Policies for the Knowledge Economy: Knowledge Discourses at Play – Tara Fenwick

Virtual Workplace Learning: Promises Met? – Robert G Brookshire, Kara M Lybarger and Lynn B Keane

Seeing Workplace Learning through an Emotional Lens – Brenda R Beatty

Towards a Social Ecology of Adult Learning in and through the Workplace – Karen Evans, Edmund Waite, and Natasha Kersh

PART THREE: ISSUES AND FUTURES

Beyond the Workplace: Learning in the Lifeplace – Margaret Harris and Colin Chisholm

Workplace Learning in the Knowledge Economy: The Development of Vocational Practice and Social Capital – David Guile

Workplace Learning and Higher Education – Carol Costley

Identifying and Classifying Corporate Universities in the United States – Amy Lui-Abel

Partnerships Between and Among Education and the Public and Private Sectors – Bridget N O′Connor and Doug Lynch

Brave New Workplace: The Impact of Technology on Location and Job Structures – Elizabeth Regan and Chester Delaney

Technology and Knowledge Management – Jingli Cheng, Su Jin Son and Curtis J Bonk

Workplace Learning: Organizations, Ethics and Issues – Craig E Johnson

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Bridget N. O’Connor, Ph.D., is Professor Emerita, Higher Education and Business Education, New York University where she taught graduate level courses including curriculum development and workplace learning. In addition to her work with SAGE Publishing, her work includes six college-level textbooks related to either end-user computing or learning in the workplace. Bridget chaired AERA’s Special Interest Group Workplace Learning and was president of the Organizational Systems Research Association, and editor of its journal. Bridget was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Kabul, Afghanistan, and a Fulbright Senior Specialist at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia.  She either chaired or served as a member of 60 NYU doctoral committees; several of her students have won national research awards.