Böcker av Stephen Billett

A guide to getting the most out of 'on-the-job' learning for human resource practitioners and managers in organisations of all sizes.

A guide to getting the most out of 'on-the-job' learning for human resource practitioners and managers in organisations of all sizes.

This book discusses what constitutes vocational education as well as its purposes, objects, formation and practices. It analyses the socially directed nature of vocations and argues that vocational education must realise important personal and social goals.

The concept of mimetic learning at work is outlined and elaborated in this text. Yet, recent considerations of individuals' epistemologies and developments form anthropology and cognitive science suggest that current explanations about individuals' contributions to learning at and through work are incomplete.