Learning Through The Workplace: A Practical Guide To Work-based Learning

by David E. Gray, David Hay

This new text takes a practical approach to providing information on learning theories and application and how we measure learning and skills. It considers how people learn, processes of learning and learning resources. It is a must have source of reference for those involved in the development, training and assessing of people learning in a work-based environment. Provides information on theories and their applications and how we measure learning skills. Case studies run throughout the book to demonstrate theory. Includes information on portfolio building, accredited experiential learning and appraisal. The focus is on the provision of practical information on continuous learning in the workplace.

195 pages, Paperback

First published May 12, 2004

About the author

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David Gray (BSc (Econ), MA(Ed), MSc, Cert Ed., PhD, FRSA) is Professor of Leadership and Organisational Behaviour at the University of Greenwich. His research interests, and publication record, include research methods, management learning (particularly coaching and mentoring), professional identity, action learning, reflective learning, management learning in SMEs and the factors that contribute to SME success. He has published books (Doing Research in the Real World (2014) 3rd edition) and articles on research methods, work-based learning, and coaching and mentoring. David has led a number of EU-funded research programmes including one examining the impact of coaching on the resilience of unemployed managers in their job-searching behaviours and another on how action learning can sustain unemployed managers in starting their own business. He is currently completing a global survey into the professional identity of coaches.