The Handbook of Work Based Learning

✍ Scribed by Ian Cunningham, Graham Dawes, Ben Bennett

• Publisher: Gower Publishing Company
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 319
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Organizational leaders, governments and trade unions all agree that learning is fundamental to organizational and economic success. The question is how it should best be supported. The Handbook of Work Based Learning delivers a compelling answer to this question. Learning needs to be based in the realities of organizational life. This unique, groundbreaking handbook provides a definitive guide to the set of strategies, tactics and methods for supporting work based learning. The three main parts of the Handbook, which focus in turn on strategies, tactics and methods, are written for both the learner and the professional developer alike. Each includes a description of the process (strategy, tactic or method), provides examples of what it looks like in action, explains the benefits and the likely limitations and provides a set of operating hints for applying the process. Since this involves 10 distinct strategies, 11 separate tactics and over 35 detailed methods, the Handbook is a definitive reference. Nothing has been neglected, so alongside detailed descriptions of what to do and how to do it, the authors have included the Declaration on Learning, created by thirteen of the major figures in the field of organizational learning, a section guiding you towards routes for gaining qualifications, along with a well-researched set of references and further reading. The Handbook is published in hardback and CD ROM editions. The CD ROM edition contains all of the elements of Parts Two, Three and Four of the book (the strategies, tactics and methods) in.pdf format. The CD ROM comes with an intranet licence which allows developers and managers to share what is effectively an A-Z guide to work based development with everyone within the organization. Work based learning is often, by its very nature, a difficult and intangible process to influence and understand. This essential guide for professional developers and learners alike, provides a very tangible set of ideas from three of the leading writers and consultants on learning at work.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Foreword......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
PART 1: THE RATIONALE FOR WORK BASED LEARNING......Page 16
1.1 The Basis of Work Based Learning......Page 18
1.2 Work Based Learning and the Role of Decision Makers......Page 32
1.3 Work Based Learning and the Role of Developers......Page 52
PART 2: STRATEGIES FOR WORK BASED LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT......Page 70
2.1 Action Learning......Page 72
2.2 Apprenticeship......Page 76
2.3 Career Advice......Page 79
2.4 Continuing Professional Development......Page 84
2.5 Internship......Page 87
2.6 Mentoring......Page 89
2.7 Networks and Communities......Page 92
2.8 Qualifications......Page 99
2.9 Self Managed Learning......Page 103
2.10 Team Development......Page 109
PART 3: TACTICS FOR WORK BASED LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT......Page 112
3.1 Appraisal and Performance Reviews......Page 114
3.2 Buddying......Page 118
3.3 Coaching......Page 122
3.4 Deputizing......Page 126
3.5 E-learning......Page 129
3.6 Job Rotation and Job Swaps......Page 133
3.7 Learning Resource Centres......Page 136
3.8 On-the-job Learning......Page 140
3.9 Personal Development Plans......Page 144
3.10 Projects......Page 148
3.11 Secondments and Related Approaches......Page 152
PART 4: METHODS FOR WORK BASED LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT......Page 158
4.1 360° Feedback......Page 160
4.2 Action Reviews......Page 164
4.3 Benchmarking......Page 168
4.4 Briefings/Demonstrations/Presentations......Page 171
4.5 Computer Based Training......Page 175
4.6 Consulting......Page 178
4.7 Counselling......Page 182
4.8 Critical Friend......Page 186
4.9 Delegation......Page 189
4.10 Development Centres......Page 192
4.11 Dialogue......Page 196
4.12 Discussion......Page 199
4.13 Distance Learning and Packages/CD-ROMs......Page 201
4.14 Induction......Page 205
4.15 Interviewing......Page 209
4.16 Learning Logs......Page 211
4.17 ‘Management By Walking About’ or ‘Managing By Wandering Around’......Page 214
4.18 Meetings......Page 216
4.19 Mistakes......Page 218
4.20 Observation/Listening......Page 222
4.21 Peer Review......Page 224
4.22 Psychometric Tests, Instruments and Checklists......Page 227
4.23 Questioning, Asking......Page 230
4.24 Reading......Page 234
4.25 Reflective Learning......Page 238
4.26 Repertory Grid Method – Understanding Your World......Page 241
4.27 Research......Page 244
4.28 Shadowing......Page 247
4.29 Tapes – Videotapes/Audiotapes/DVD......Page 251
4.30 Task Groups/Working Parties/Committees/Steering Groups – Temporary Groups......Page 254
4.31 Travel......Page 257
4.32 Video Feedback......Page 259
4.33 Video Conference/Webcam/Teleconference......Page 262
4.34 Visits......Page 265
4.35 Volunteering......Page 268
4.36 Witnessing......Page 271
4.37 Writing......Page 273
PART 5: CONCLUSIONS AND DIRECTIONS......Page 278
Appendix I: A Declaration on Learning – A Call to Action......Page 284
Appendix II: A Work Based Model for Gaining Qualifications......Page 290
Appendix III: Why Isn’t Work Based Learning More Supported?......Page 296
Bibliography......Page 304
E......Page 310
M......Page 311
Y......Page 312