Integrating learning and work: Problems and prospects

✍ Scribed by Per-Erik Ellström

• Book ID: 102253941
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 112 KB
• Volume: 12
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1044-8004
• DOI: 10.1002/hrdq.1006

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

In spite of a widespread belief in the importance of integrating learning and work, little is known about
the conditions that promote such an integration. In order to both clarify the concept of learning and see how
to integrate learning and work, this article distinguishes between two major modes of learning: adaptive and
developmental learning, which the author breaks down into four levels. Using these conceptualizations as a
starting point, the article focuses on identifying and analyzing a number of factors that are assumed to be
critical for facilitating or constraining an integration of learning and work.