Books written by Stephen Billett

Learning In The Workplace: Strategies for effective practice

337-60 Lipsig-Mumme, C. 1996 'Bridging the solitudes: Canadian perspectives on Research Partnerships in the New Work Order', Keynote Address, ANTARAC Annual Conference, Melbourne, October 31-1 November Lynch, L. 1993 Strategies for ...
The CBT Decade: Teaching for Flexibility and Adaptability

A 1998 study conducted by researchers from the Centre For Learning and Work Research at Griffith Univ. and The Studies of Work, Education and Training, at Monash Univ. sought to evaluate the contributions of competency-based training (CBT) ...
The CBT Decade: Teaching for Flexibility and Adaptability. An Overview

The contribution of competency-based training (CBT) to the development of an adaptable and flexible workforce was examined by analyzing documents and gathering data from teachers, industry representatives, enterprises, and students in ...
Vocational Education: Purposes, Traditions and Prospects

This book discusses what constitutes vocational education as well as its key purposes, objects, formation and practices. In short, it seeks to outline and elaborate the nature of the project of vocational education.
Experience of School Transitions: Policies, Practice and Participants

This was contrasted with their views of vocational pathways which they mainly associated with characteristics of poorly performing students. For the Careers Guidance counsellor, the origins of these attributes of 'typical' VET students ...
Work, Change and Workers

This book provides a fresh account of the changing nature of work and how workers are changing as result of the requirements of contemporary working life.
Practice-based Learning in Higher Education: Jostling Cultures

This book addresses issues confronting universities’ attempts to integrate practice-based learning in higher education curriculum, yet which reveals the jostling of cultures which exist within and amongst the academy, industry, government ...
Integrating Practice-based Experiences into Higher Education

This book advances understandings about and practices for effectively integrating practice-based (e.g. workplace) experiences in higher education programs.
The Standing of Vocational Education and the Occupations It Serves: Current Concerns and Strategies For Enhancing That Standing

The function and institutional embeddedness of polytechnics in the Indian education system. International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training (IJRVET), 6(3), 284–308. https://doi.org/10.13152/IJRVET.6.3.5 Singh, ...
Mimetic Learning at Work: Learning in the Circumstances of Practice

The concept of mimetic learning at work is outlined and elaborated in this text.
Practice-Based Education: Perspectives and Strategies

Practice-Based Education: Perspectives and Strategies. This book draws on the collective vision, research, scholarship and experience of leading academics in the field of practice-based and professional education.
International Handbook of Research in Professional and Practice-based Learning

The nature of expertise. Hillsdale: Erlbaum. ... Creative insight: The social dimension of a solitary moment. ... Creative expertise as superior reproducible performance: Innovative and flexible aspects of expert performance.
Enhancing Teaching and Learning in the Dutch Vocational Education System: Reforms Enacted

Van der Meer, M., Visser, J., Wilthagen, T., & van der Heijden, P.F., (2003). Weg van het Overleg? De Nederlandse overlegeconomie twintig jaar na Wassenaar. [A(way) of consultation. The Dutch consultation economy twenty years after ...
Promoting, Assessing, Recognizing and Certifying Lifelong Learning: International Perspectives and Practices

This congruity may lead to Hugh's engagement in more demanding or more personally aligned work activities and this engagement may support (or hinder) his work-learning that will include developing and constructing occupational skills ...
Supporting Learning Across Working Life: Models, Processes and Practices

Similarly, issues associated with communicating with others and clients now might be part of specific work functions and capacities associated with effective performance of work. These are sometimes referred to as non-occupational ...
Learning Through Practice: Models, Traditions, Orientations and Approaches

Associate Professor Patrick Murray manages postgraduate aviation programmes and safety research at Griffith University. After 15 years as an Air Force pilot, Patrick flew Boeing 747 aircraft for Cathay Pacific Airways, ...
Enriching Higher Education Students' Learning through Post-work Placement Interventions

Reflections on clinical learning in novice speech-language therapy students. International Journal of Language and ... In K. Stagnitti, A. Schoo, & D. Welch (Eds.), Clinical and fieldwork placements in the health professions (2nd ed.).
Learning Through Practice: Models, Traditions, Orientations and Approaches

The contributions to this volume explore ways in which learning through practice can be conceptualised, enacted, and appraised through an analysis of the traditions, purposes, and processes that support this learning—including curriculum ...
Sustaining Employability Through Work-life Learning: Practices and Policies

... Transitions”). Analyses of Phase 1 interview data also illuminated the requirements for work, how they had transformed, and kinds of learning needed for employability and how these had arisen through: (a) everyday workplace activities ...
Work, Subjectivity and Learning: Understanding Learning through Working Life

... Academy: Narratives of Immigrant Women of Colour The position of an immigrant woman faculty of colour in the academy, though ambiguous, and often tenuous, is filled with challenge and hope. The complex identity of an immigrant woman of ...