In 2001 the Workplace Learning Research Unit of the University of Calgary, Canada, hosted this conference, bringing together international research into work and learning from a wide variety of national contexts, traditions and interests. The papers are organised into nine basic themes, in nine sections, with a tenth section containing an addendum and two papers in the English version. The themes are: action research; epistemology; gender and diversity; human resource development (HRD)/management; ideology; labour/partnership; learning; technology; and work.
Papers included in section one are:
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In 2001 the Workplace Learning Research Unit of the University of Calgary, Canada, hosted this conference, bringing together international research into work and learning from a wide variety of national contexts, traditions and interests. The papers are organised into nine basic themes, in nine sections, with a tenth section containing an addendum and two papers in the English version. The themes are: action research; epistemology; gender and diversity; human resource development (HRD)/management; ideology; labour/partnership; learning; technology; and work.
Papers included in section one are: Creating a culture for the integration of work and learning / Loretta Bellman; Strategy and struggle, exploring strategic learning with participatory action research / Jeff Gold, Vikki Smith, Helen Rodgers; Transfer of learning: from classroom to workplace / Gordon Graham; Transition mapping: the guts and glory of transition-based organizational learning / Stephen Hobbs; Le developpment du jugement reflexif des travailleurs sociaux confontes aux realites interculturelles = Developing the reflexive judgement of social workers faced with intercultural realities / Jo Anne Levesque, Andre Morin; La recherche narrative au service de la recherche-action integrale systematique: un aprentissage adult reussi = Narrative research in the service of systematic integrated action research: an adult learning success / Andre Morin, Luc Renaud; Self-employment literacy and development - action research in self-sufficiency / Ida Stanley-Tober, Pauline Kay, John Donovan, Catherine Little.
Papers included in section two are: Context and intertextuality in work based learning / Carol Costley; A problematic relationship?: evidence and practice in professional workplaces / Nick Frost; From marginalisation to empowerment: epistemological and ideological reflections on workplace learning and technology / Hazel Lawley, Carol Urness; Toward an understanding of the organizational learning process / Colleen Lucas; A methodology for artists’ work based learning / Jenny Naish; Professional identity as learning processes in life histories / Henning Salling Olesen; Paradigm shift: the emergence of formal distributed learning graduate programs in Canada / Jo-Anne Willment.
Papers included in section three are: Gender based learning dilemmas in work organisations / Lena Abrahamsson; Assessment and the worker as productive learner / David Beckett, Hilary Timma; The business and legal case to accommodate workplace learning needs / Gail H. Forsythe, David C. Este; Picture this: immigrant workers use photography for communication and change in a workplace literacy program / Melina L. Gallo; What counts after earning a degree: gender differences and the economy / S. Laurie Hill, E. Lisbeth Donaldson; Learning, empowerment and gender: the impression management connection / Pamela Loewen; Attitudes of management undergraduates toward employing persons with disabilities: a need for change / Robert Loo; ‘New times’, gender and workplace learning: new research in the aged care industry / Margaret Somerville.
Papers included in section four are: Collective executive leadership: an exploration of this new leadership phenomena / Patricia A. Duffy Atkin; Towards a new employment relationship: merging organisation and individual needs and interests / Tim Baker; Lifelong learning in SMEs: a case study / David Devins, Vikki Smith, Rick Holden; 360 degree feedback systems: their potential for learning and change / Jocelyn Lockyer, John Toews, Herta Fidler, Claudio Violato, John Swiniarski; Formal and informal learning opportunities of first-line nurse managers / Karran Thorpe.
Papers included in section five are: Making workers ‘fit’: educational standards, corporate discourse and the new workplace / Vicki K. Carter, Fred M Scheid, Sharon L. Howell; While no one is watching: ‘social learning’ among people who are excluded from the labour market / Kathryn Church, Eric Shragge, Jean-Marc Fontan, Roxana Ng; Situation literacy in the workplace / Tracy A. Defoe, Mary Ellen Belfiore, Sue Folinsbee, Judy Hunter; Research and the pedagogics of work and learning / Bruce Spencer; Learning work: new approaches to high school ‘vocational’ education in Alberta / Wolfgang Lehman, Alison Taylor.
The complete volume, with papers from sections 1-5 listed, is indexed at TD/TNC 71.26; the complete volume, with papers from sections 6-10 listed, is indexed at TD/TNC 71.27; selected individual papers are indexed from TD/TNC 71.28 to TD/TNC 71.75.
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