1st Edition

Informal Learning, Practitioner Inquiry and Occupational Education An Epistemological Perspective

Edited By Sai Loo, Brian Sutton Copyright 2021
206 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

206 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

206 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Informal Learning, Practitioner Inquiry and Occupational Education explores how practitioners in a variety of occupations perform their jobs and argues that working and learning are intricately connected. Drawing on theories around working and learning in informal, formal and lifelong settings, the book gives insights into how workers negotiate their occupational practices. The book... Read more

Chapter 1

Introduction

SAI LOO AND BRIAN SUTTON

Chapter 2

Informal learning and occupational education literature review

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Chapter 3

Perspectives from academe

BRIAN SUTTON AND SAI LOO

Chapter 4

Case studies of 11 participants

ANDREW ATTER, SUE BINKS, NOEL DENNIS, MARIT DUE, BRYONY HANNAH, PETER MACDONALD, EMMA REES, CHRISTINE SCHOLES, MIGUEL TORIBIO-MATEAS, RUSSELL WATE AND PAULA WERRETT

Chapter 5

Findings, discussion and conceptualisation of informal learning in occupational practices

SAI LOO AND BRIAN SUTTON

Chapter 6

Reflections of (informal) learning in occupational practices

SAI LOO AND BRIAN SUTTON

Bibliography

Index

 

Biography

Sai Loo is an academic at UCL Institute of Education, University College London, UK.

Brian Sutton is Professor of Learning Performance at Middlesex University, UK

"This unusual and provocative book takes a fresh look at learning for work focusing on a group of diverse individuals who reflect on their learning over time. It is organized around a rich array of personal accounts over their work lives. This fascinating material provides the basis for exploring issues such as how people learn to create their work practices, how this changes over time through the mostly informal influences on them, and how they enquire into their own development. Current ideas about these matters are used to investigate these narratives and to identify a framework for occupational education, not conventionally as it can be taught, but as it is experienced and navigated by practitioners."

David Boud, Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney.