Includes bibliographical references and index.

Theories of work, place and learning : new directions / Len Cairns and Margaret Malloch -- Theories of workplace learning / Paul Hager -- Workplaces and learning / Knud Illeris -- Workplace learning and the organization / Alison Fuller and Lorna Unwin -- Subjectivity, self and personal agency in learning through and for work / Stephen Billett -- Learning in the workplace : communities of practice and beyond / Len Cairns -- Activity theory and learning at work / Yrjö Engeström -- Informal learning at work : conditions, processes and logics / Per-Erik Ellström -- Towards a meta-theory of learning and performance / Darlene Russ-Eft -- Knowledge and workplace learning / Nicholas M. Allix -- Rethinking work-based learning : for education professionals and professionals who educate / Karen Evans, David Guile and Judy Harris -- Researching workplace learning : an overview and critique / Peter H. Sawchuk -- How researching learning at work can lead to tools for enhancing learning / Michael Eraut -- Researching workplace learning in the United States / Victoria Marsick, Karen Watkins and Bridget N. O'Connor -- Researching workplace learning in Australia / Nicky Solomon and David Boud -- Researching workplace learning in Europe / Hans Gruber and Christian Harteis -- Initatives in VET and workplace learning : a Korean perspective / Sang-Duk Choi -- Age management in organisations in the European Union / Gerhard Naegele and Alan Walker -- Work and learning: from schools to workplaces / Richard D. Lakes -- Competency-based training and its impact on workplace learning in Australia / Allie Clemans and Peter Rushbrook -- Work-related learning in the United States : past practices, paradigm shifts, and policies of partnerships / John M. Dirkx -- Workplace learning in East Africa : a case study / Martin Mulder and Judith Gulikers -- Policies for the knowledge economy : knowledge discourses at play / Tara Fenwick -- Virtual workplace learning : promises met? / Robert G. Brookshire, Kara M. Lybarger and Lynn B. Keane -- Seeing workplace learning through an emotional lens / Brenda R. Beatty -- Towards a social ecology of adult learingin in and through the workplace / Karen Evans, Edmund Waite, and Natasha Kersh -- Beyond the workplace : learning in the lifeplace / Margaret Harris and Colin Chisholm -- Workplace learning in the knowledge economy : the development of vocational practice and social capital / David Guile -- Workplace learning and higher education / Carol Costley -- Identifying and classifying corporate universities in the United States / Amy Lui-Abel -- Partnerships between and among education and the public and private sectors / Bridget N. O'Connor and Doug Lynch -- Brave new workplace : the impact of technology on location and job structures / Elizabeth Regan and Chester Delaney -- Technology and knowledge management / Jingli Cheng, Su Jin Son and Curtis J. Bonk -- Workplace learning : organizations, ethics, and issues / Craig E. Johnson.

This handbook provides an overview of workplace learning from a global perspective.