Overview
- Combines the current state of expertise and research with an integrated model of professional learning
- Reflects important educational issues of maintaining competitiveness and employability
- Presents theoretical frameworks for modelling professional learning and its outcomes
- Offers empirical evidence to guide practitioners
Part of the book series: Professional and Practice-based Learning (PPBL, volume 24)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book examines professional learning and relates it to the acquisition of expertise, and the influence of individuals. Professional learning, as discussed in the book, comprises all kinds of occupational domains because employment and paid work usually follow the achievement principle, i.e. workers are expected to perform efficiently. The book suggests that the perspective of expertise research is an appropriate lens to use for gaining insight in how individuals can be prepared and enabled to autonomously master the requirements of daily working life. Expertise is understood as the capacity to reliably perform on an extraordinary level, and the basic assumption is that experts are best prepared to successfully cope with future challenges at workplaces. The book comprehensively discusses issues of expertise research and explores the nature of a successful individual and an impeded individual. It proposes an integrated model of individual and social components of expertisedevelopment, the i-PPP model. The model provides insight in and an understanding of how individuals can be enabled to develop and maintain professional expertise in the context of daily work.
Across all paradigms, researchers, policy-makers, employers and trade unionists agree that working conditions undergo permanent change through economic, societal, and technological developments. Recently, the digitalisation of (working) life became a hot topic of scientific and societal discourses. Workplaces, thus, provide challenges for individuals who have to be able to cope with workplace changes. Accordingly, new challenges emerge for an adequate understanding of learning for work as well as learning during work.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Individual and Social Influences on Professional Learning
Book Subtitle: Supporting the Acquisition and Maintenance of Expertise
Authors: Hans Gruber, Christian Harteis
Series Title: Professional and Practice-based Learning
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97041-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-97039-4Published: 12 November 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07289-6Published: 19 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-97041-7Published: 01 November 2018
Series ISSN: 2210-5549
Series E-ISSN: 2210-5557
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 218
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Professional & Vocational Education, Learning & Instruction, Personal Development, Educational Psychology, Career Skills