Work-Based Learning

by Joseph A. Raelin

Work-based learning is Joe Raelin s unique way of incorporating a number of action strategies such as action learning, action science, and communities of practice into 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 you're an organizational or college educator, this book will help you make learning accessible to everyone and even contagious within your organization!"

Genres: Education

358 pages, ebook

First published February 13, 2008

About the author

JOE RAELIN is an internationally-recognized scholar in the fields of collective leadership, learning, and practice. Besides serving as the Asa S. Knowles Chair Emeritus at Northeastern University, he has held distinguished international visiting professorships in South Africa and the UK and is currently Visiting Professor of LUT University in Finland. He was formerly Professor of Management at Boston College and received his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Joe is a prominent inventor of new practices in leadership and management studies, to wit, his development of a new paradigm of collective leadership via what he refers to as “leaderful practice,” on the emerging movement in leadership known as “leadership-as-practice,” as well as the field of work-based learning.
He is also a prolific writer with 11 books and over 200 articles as well as a management consultant with the firm, The Leaderful Consultancy.

His current book is: The Best of "Is it Leaderful?" It is a Kindle ebook available on Amazon.

Among his prior books on Amazon are:
Creating Leaderful Organizations: How to Bring Out Leadership in Everyone (Berrett-Koehler, 2003)

Work-Based Learning: Bridging Knowledge and Action in the Workplace (Jossey-Bass, 2008)

The Leaderful Fieldbook: Strategies and Activities for Developing Leadership in Everyone (Nicholas-Brealey, 2010)

Leadership-as-Practice: Theory and Application (Routledge, 2016)