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Yvonne Salman
Education effects from learning in the course of work processes
The intermeshment of learning and work processes - Economic applicability and self-develop-ment as illustrated by the continuing IT training system
The coupling of learning and work processes has taken on considerable importance in initial and continuing in-company vocational training since the 1980s. Using as its starting point an understanding of lifelong learning as being both an adjustment process and an organisational process, this paper examines the effects that in-company learning activities have on employees. Drawing on the example of work-oriented continuing training within an IT system, case studies are used to illustrate the effects of in-company learning.
The paper shows that due to the process-oriented approach used by continuing training the effects generated by learning that takes place in the course of work processes are of use not only to the particular company. Although this type of learning is integrated into the corporate logic of action at functional level, it can also offer opportunities for making use of it for one's own career and personal development. Thus, continuing in-company vocational training can also contribute the individual's self-determined organization of his/her own occupation and living conditions.
- 416 pages
Order code 111.021
ISBN 978-3-7639-1123-3
Price: 39,90 €
