Preliminary Material / Stephen Billett , Christian Harteis and Anneli Eteläpelto -- Emerging Perspectives on Workplace Learning / Stephen Billett -- Field-specific Educational Practices as a Source for Students’ Vocational Identity Formation / Anne Virtanen , Päivi Tynjälä and Marja-Leena Stenström -- Negotiating Professional Identity / Katja Vähäsantanen and Stephen Billett -- Teacher Educators’ Workplace Learning / Päivi Hökkä , Helena Rasku-Puttonen and Anneli Eteläpelto -- Women Auxiliary Workers’ Learning and Discoverning ‘Self’ through Work / Jillian Cavanagh -- Farm Women Learning to become and Belong / Jan Allen -- Promoting Professional Subjectivities and Personal Agency at Work / Salme Hänninen and Anneli Eteläpelto -- Conceptualisation of Learning through Errors at Work / Johannes Bauer and Regina H. Mulder -- Reflection and Professional Competence / Martin Gartmeier , Stefanie Kipfmueller , Helmut Heid and Hans Gruber -- Leadership Development / Sarojni Choy and Brian Delahaye -- Supporting Experience Sharing as Participatory Workplace Practice / Kaija Collin and Susanna Paloniemi -- Developing Conceptual Knowledge in Road Transport through Guided Learning / Jason Lewis -- Negotiating Engagement / Ray Smith -- Conditions of Work Environments in Fostering Transfer of Training / Dagmar Festner and Hans Gruber -- Perspectives, Prospects and Progress in Work-Related Learning / Anneli Eteläpelto -- Biographical Information / Stephen Billett , Christian Harteis and Anneli Eteläpelto -- Index / Stephen Billett , Christian Harteis and Anneli Eteläpelto.

There is a growing interest in understanding learning in and through work and its relationship to what is required to be learnt for effective and productive working lives. This book offers a range of emergent perspectives based on current research on learning through and for work. The common focus among these perspectives is to understand how individuals engage in and learn through their work. This includes how they learn about, manage and respond to change in their work and develop approaches and responses to learning in, through and for their working lives. The key contribution of this book is to provide insights to support learning throughout working life in order to sustain individuals’ capacities for effective, productive and enduring working lives. Comprising 15 chapters the book offers perspectives from Finland, Germany, New Zealand and Australia and across a range of occupations and places of work. Individually and collectively these chapters make important contributions to learning about the self and agency at work and about learning work tasks. The origins of this text were a desire to bring together the work of a group of recently completed and current doctoral candidates at Jyväskylä, Regensburg and Griffith universities. This goal has been achieved here as supported by collegiate activities among the editors, contributors and their colleagues.

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