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Fuller, Alison; Halford, Susan; Lyle, Kate; Taylor, Rebecca; Teglborg, Anne-Charlotte – Journal of Education and Work, 2018
Innovation occupies a pivotal place in our understanding of knowledge-based economies, and this is raising questions about sources of innovation, how it originates, and the role played by employees, work practices and learning. This paper explores these issues through case study research into a new approach to providing healthcare for homeless…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Health Services, Foreign Countries, Knowledge Economy
Bishop, Dan; Felstead, Alan; Fuller, Alison; Jewson, Nick; Unwin, Lorna; Kakavelakis, Konstantinos – Journal of Education and Work, 2009
This paper examines two competing systems of work organisation in the British construction industry and their consequences for learning. Under the traditional "adversarial" system, conflict, hostility and litigation between contractors are commonplace. Such a climate actively militates against collective learning and knowledge sharing between…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Construction Industry, Cooperation, Construction (Process)
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Fuller, Alison; Unwin, Lorna – Journal of Vocational Education and Training: The Vocational Aspect of Education, 1998
The distinction between formal and informal education is unhelpful. A reconceptualized concept of apprenticeship should reconcile the polarization between learner-centered and transmission approaches to instruction. (SK)
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Education Work Relationship, Foreign Countries, Informal Education
Fuller, Alison; Unwin, Lorna – Journal of Education and Work, 2003
Situated learning theory provides a rich conceptual framework for analysing the processes by which apprentices become (full) participants in a community of practice. This article uses case study evidence from the UK's Modern Apprenticeship programme to show how this framework can be developed by identifying features of expansive and restrictive…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Apprenticeships, Foreign Countries, Case Studies
Hodkinson, Phil; Hodkinson, Heather; Evans, Karen; Kersh, Natasha; Fuller, Alison; Unwin, Lorna; Senker, Peter – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2004
In this paper we address a perceived gap in the workplace learning literature, for there is very little writing which successfully integrates the issues of individual learners into predominantly social theories of learning. The paper draws upon data from four linked research projects to address this problem. Following an analysis of the…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Learning Theories, Social Theories, Workplace Literacy