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Bjørnsen, Gabriela; Dettweiler, Ulrich; Njå, Ove; Knudsen, Knud – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to study how learning within the fire and rescue services may be conceptualized, with special attention paid to tunnel fire safety. Previous studies have developed a model to understand learning in emergency response work. The concept of learning is extended from observed changes in relevant settings to also…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Safety, Emergency Medical Technicians, Fire Protection
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Fernandez, Lourdes; Gandy, Elizabeth Kate; Lawrence, Heidi Y.; Bassi, Preet; Piercy, Ernst; Sobotka, Debbie; Austin, Marc; Lattanzi Shutika, Debra – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to offer guidelines and recommendations for launching and running sustainable programs involving partnerships between industries and universities. Teaching technical writing and communication to fire and emergency services personnel is a task that requires forethought and intricate planning. The Advanced…
Descriptors: Technical Writing, Safety Education, Fire Science Education, Partnerships in Education
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Rooney, Donna; Manidis, Marie; Price, Oriana M.; Scheeres, Hermine – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore how workers experience planned and unplanned change(s), how the effects of change endure in organizations and the entanglement (Gherardi, 2015) of materiality, affect and learning. Design/methodology/approach: Research design is ethnographic in nature and draws from 30 semi-structured interviews of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Organizational Change, Experience, Local Government
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Smith, Raymond – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2017
Purpose: The focus on innovation as a foundational element of enhanced organisational performance has led to the promoting and valuing of greater levels of employee participation in innovation processes. An emergent concept of employee-driven innovation could be argued to have hindered understandings of the creative and transformative nature of…
Descriptors: Innovation, Employees, Transformative Learning, Ethnography