Ebook: International Perspectives on Competence in the Workplace: Research, Policy and Practice

In the future a more competent workforce will be required as workers will have to acquire the competence to predict and deal with novel situations at work.
This book aims to provide the reader with insightful perspectives about competence in different situations and contexts. It presents a more enlightened view of human competence by opening up an international dialogue about the meaning and interpretation of competence in the workplace, and the impact of learning environments on workplace policy and practice.
Five major premises which provide a basis for how we interpret, experience, and teach competence in the workplace are put forward:

• notions of worker competence, and the persuasiveness of informal workplace training;
• developing competence as an individual, and the inherent relationship between the worker and work, and the lifeworld;
• learning which develops higher level competences based on a more holistic conception of competence;
• characteristics of learning environments as integral components of learning at work;
• learning environments construed as theoretical and methodological problems in terms of their impact on the acquisition of competence.

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In the future a more competent workforce will be required as workers will have to acquire the competence to predict and deal with novel situations at work.
This book aims to provide the reader with insightful perspectives about competence in different situations and contexts. It presents a more enlightened view of human competence by opening up an international dialogue about the meaning and interpretation of competence in the workplace, and the impact of learning environments on workplace policy and practice.
Five major premises which provide a basis for how we interpret, experience, and teach competence in the workplace are put forward:

• notions of worker competence, and the persuasiveness of informal workplace training;
• developing competence as an individual, and the inherent relationship between the worker and work, and the lifeworld;
• learning which develops higher level competences based on a more holistic conception of competence;
• characteristics of learning environments as integral components of learning at work;
• learning environments construed as theoretical and methodological problems in terms of their impact on the acquisition of competence.

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In the future a more competent workforce will be required as workers will have to acquire the competence to predict and deal with novel situations at work.
This book aims to provide the reader with insightful perspectives about competence in different situations and contexts. It presents a more enlightened view of human competence by opening up an international dialogue about the meaning and interpretation of competence in the workplace, and the impact of learning environments on workplace policy and practice.
Five major premises which provide a basis for how we interpret, experience, and teach competence in the workplace are put forward:

• notions of worker competence, and the persuasiveness of informal workplace training;
• developing competence as an individual, and the inherent relationship between the worker and work, and the lifeworld;
• learning which develops higher level competences based on a more holistic conception of competence;
• characteristics of learning environments as integral components of learning at work;
• learning environments construed as theoretical and methodological problems in terms of their impact on the acquisition of competence.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction Perspectives on Competence Development: Views and Tensions....Pages 1-6
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
Understanding the Basis for Competence Development....Pages 9-25
Perceptions of Vocational Education and Competence: Implications for Research, Policy and Practice....Pages 27-40
Vocational Educators: Understanding Practice at Work....Pages 41-64
Front Matter....Pages 65-65
The Changing Context of Business Education: Competency Requirements for the New Paradigm....Pages 67-83
An Alternative Model of Competence-Based Assessment....Pages 85-98
‘Kicking and Screaming into the 21st Century’: A Collaborative Attempt to Develop Beginning Teacher Competencies through E-Communication....Pages 99-114
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
Workplace Trainers in Action: Their Role in Building a Training/Learning Culture....Pages 117-137
Learning in Small Business Enterprises....Pages 139-161
Learning Environments: What are They?....Pages 163-178
Front Matter....Pages 179-179
Empowerment Through Reflection: Competence for the New Millennium or a Case of the Emperor’s New Clothes?....Pages 181-202
Nursing Work and Nurses at Work....Pages 203-219
Demands for Intercultural Communicative Competence in Working-Life: A Case Study of Swedish Higher Education Co-operation with Baltic Neighbour, Estonia....Pages 221-239
Conclusion Competence in the Workplace: A Synthesis of Issues for Reflection and Action....Pages 241-248
Back Matter....Pages 249-251

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In the future a more competent workforce will be required as workers will have to acquire the competence to predict and deal with novel situations at work.
This book aims to provide the reader with insightful perspectives about competence in different situations and contexts. It presents a more enlightened view of human competence by opening up an international dialogue about the meaning and interpretation of competence in the workplace, and the impact of learning environments on workplace policy and practice.
Five major premises which provide a basis for how we interpret, experience, and teach competence in the workplace are put forward:

• notions of worker competence, and the persuasiveness of informal workplace training;
• developing competence as an individual, and the inherent relationship between the worker and work, and the lifeworld;
• learning which develops higher level competences based on a more holistic conception of competence;
• characteristics of learning environments as integral components of learning at work;
• learning environments construed as theoretical and methodological problems in terms of their impact on the acquisition of competence.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction Perspectives on Competence Development: Views and Tensions....Pages 1-6
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
Understanding the Basis for Competence Development....Pages 9-25
Perceptions of Vocational Education and Competence: Implications for Research, Policy and Practice....Pages 27-40
Vocational Educators: Understanding Practice at Work....Pages 41-64
Front Matter....Pages 65-65
The Changing Context of Business Education: Competency Requirements for the New Paradigm....Pages 67-83
An Alternative Model of Competence-Based Assessment....Pages 85-98
‘Kicking and Screaming into the 21st Century’: A Collaborative Attempt to Develop Beginning Teacher Competencies through E-Communication....Pages 99-114
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
Workplace Trainers in Action: Their Role in Building a Training/Learning Culture....Pages 117-137
Learning in Small Business Enterprises....Pages 139-161
Learning Environments: What are They?....Pages 163-178
Front Matter....Pages 179-179
Empowerment Through Reflection: Competence for the New Millennium or a Case of the Emperor’s New Clothes?....Pages 181-202
Nursing Work and Nurses at Work....Pages 203-219
Demands for Intercultural Communicative Competence in Working-Life: A Case Study of Swedish Higher Education Co-operation with Baltic Neighbour, Estonia....Pages 221-239
Conclusion Competence in the Workplace: A Synthesis of Issues for Reflection and Action....Pages 241-248
Back Matter....Pages 249-251
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