Developing Learning Professionals Integrating Experiences in Univers
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 occup
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Series Editors: Stephen Billett, Griffith University, Australia Christian Harteis, Paderborn University, Germany Hans Gruber, University of Regensburg, Germany Professional and practice-based learning brings together international research on the individual development of professionals and the organisation of professional life and educational experiences. It complements the Springer journal Vocations and Learning: Studies in vocational and professional education. Professional learning, and the practice-based processes that often support it, are the subject of increased interest and attention in the fields of educational, psychological, sociological, and business management research, and also by governments, employer organisations and unions. This professional learning goes beyond, what is often termed professional education, as it includes learning processes and experiences outside of educational institutions in both the initial and ongoing learning for the professional practice. Changes in these workplaces requirements usually manifest themselves in the everyday work tasks, professional development provisions in educational institution decrease in their salience, and learning and development during professional activities increase in their salience. There are a range of scientific challenges and important focuses within the field of professional learning. These include: - understanding and making explicit the complex and massive knowledge that is required for professional practice and identifying ways in which this knowledge can best be initially learnt and developed further throughout professional life. - analytical explications of those processes that support learning at an individual and an organisational level. - understanding how learning experiences and educational processes might best be aligned or integrated to support professional learning. The series integrates research from different disciplines: education, sociology, psychology, amongst others. The series is comprehensive in scope as it not only focusses on professional learning of teachers and those in schools, colleges and universities, but all professional development within organisations.
Stephen Billett · Amanda Henderson Editors
Developing Learning Professionals Integrating Experiences in University and Practice Settings
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Editors Stephen Billett Griffith University School of Education & Professional Studi Mount Gravatt Campus 4112 Griffith Queensland Australia [email protected]
Dr. Amanda Henderson Queensland Health Queensland Australia and School of Nursing and Midwifery Griffith University Queensland Australia [email protected]
ISSN 2210-5549 e-ISSN 2210-5557 ISBN 978-90-481-3936-1 e-ISBN 978-90-481-3937-8 DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-3937-8 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011920831 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitt
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