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Billett, Stephen – Australian Journal of Adult and Community Education, 1993
Interviews with skilled mine workers in Queensland, Australia, suggest that informal learning in the workplace enables authentic activities, access to experts, and sociocultural environment conductive to the development of expertise. Skilled work means technical competence in a context of sociocultural values. (SK)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Corporate Education, Foreign Countries, Informal Education
