Work-Based Learning: Bridging Knowledge and Action in the Workplace (The Josey-bass Business and Management Series)

About this book

Work-based learning is Joe Raelins unique way of incorporating a number of action strategiessuch as action learning action science and communities of practiceinto a comprehensive framework to help people learn collectively with others. In this thoroughly updated and revised edition he demonstrates how to engage our reflective powers to challenge those taken-for-granted assumptions that unwittingly hold us back from questioning standard ways of operating. A well-known popular author Joe is an avid student of the many traditions that support work-based learning so he presents an inclusive model that has wide appeal across disciplines and occupations. He provides readers with the most recent updates in the field such as his coverage of virtual team learning portfolios multisource feedback critical and global action learning and changes in educational policy. Whether youre an organizational or college educator this book will help you make learning accessible to everyoneand even contagious within your organization!