Learning Through Work Practices, Purposes and Outcomes

"In this book, Professor Billett provides an exceptionally rich account on the diverse value of workplaces as sites for learning. In our fast-changing world, this book is extremely timely and must-read for all who wish to develop deep understanding of how learning takes place, how it can be facilitated and how it can lead to innovations."

Päivi Tynjälä, Professor, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

"Billett draws on evidence-based knowledge and a well-articulated theory of workplace learning to trace the continuities and adaptive responses of occupational knowledge over time. He shows how societies often privilege declarative knowing over professional or vocational knowing. Rejecting that stance, Billett reconceives occupational knowledge and its effective learning strategies as ... complex, sensory-inclusive, adaptive, and based on an interdependent mix of procedural ("knowing how"), conceptual ("knowing what"), and dispositional ("knowing for") capacities. Organizational leaders will appreciate chapters offering pathways for developing sequenced occupational capacities through work; practice pedagogies; and examples for how to catalyze both learning and innovation by transforming work practices."

Victoria Marsick, Professor, Adult Learning & Leadership, Columbia University, Teachers College, New York

"This book makes strong theoretical, epistemological and conceptual contributions to the topic of workplace learning and offers empirically grounded and explicit pedagogical resources for sustaining learning through practice. It advances an explicit conceptual frame for understanding and sustaining learning through practice and is a must-read for students, researchers and practitioners. The author is one of most cited and renowned authors in the field of adult education and learning through work."

Laurent Filliettaz, Professor of Adult Education, Language and Work, University of Geneva, Switzerland