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1. Creating and Managing Expansive Learning Environments

   Improving Vocational and Professional Education and Training

   By Alison Fuller, Lorna Unwin

   This book applies Fuller and Unwin’s increasingly influential concept of ‘expansive and restrictive learning environments’ to a range of settings engaged in education and training including, workplaces and educational institutions providing upper secondary, tertiary and higher education. "Expansive...

   To Be Published December 9th 2013 by Routledge
2. Young People's Perspectives on Education, Training and Employment

   Realising Their Potential

   By Unwin, Lorna (Director, Centre for Post-Compulsory Education, University of Sheffield), Wellington, Jerry

   Based on interviews with over 150 young people in education and training, this volume reflects on their perspectives on the issues and challenges that education and training have to offer....

   To Be Published September 29th 2013 by Routledge
3. Teaching and Learning in Further Education

   Diversity and change, 4th Edition

   By Prue Huddleston, Lorna Unwin

   Teaching and Learning in Further Education is established as an authoritative, wide-ranging introductory text for those training to work in the further education, post-compulsory education and lifelong learning sectors. It offers an easy to read picture of the practitioner’s everyday working life,...

   Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
4. Contemporary Apprenticeship

   International Perspectives on an Evolving Model of Learning

   Edited by Alison Fuller, Lorna Unwin

   Throughout the world, people understand the meaning of 'apprenticeship'. As a model of learning and skill formation, apprenticeship has adapted over the years to reflect changes in work, in technology, and in the types of knowledge that underpin occupational expertise. Apprenticeship serves the...

   Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
5. Improving Working as Learning

   By Alan Felstead, Alison Fuller, Nick Jewson, Lorna Unwin

   Series: Improving Learning

   Interest in learning at work has captured the attention of many people around the world, often taking centre stage in policy debates about improving economic performance, prosperity and well-being. This book is about the learning that goes on in workplaces – ranging from offices, factories and...

   Published April 22nd 2009 by Routledge
6. Teaching and Learning in Further Education

   Diversity and Change, 3rd Edition

   By Prue Huddleston, Lorna Unwin

   Further education colleges now deliver education and training to more students than any other institutions in the post-compulsory sector. Presenting a practical guide to teaching and learning within the context of the changing FE environment, this book addresses the diverse nature of the curriculum...

   Published November 5th 2007 by Routledge
7. Communities of Practice

   Critical Perspectives

   Edited by Jason Hughes, Nick Jewson, Lorna Unwin

   This benchmark text provides an accessible yet critical introduction to the theory and application of communities of practice and their use in a diverse range of managerial and professional contexts, from education to human resource development. This book charts the development of the idea of...

   Published October 3rd 2007 by Routledge
8. Improving Workplace Learning

   By Karen Evans, Phil Hodkinson, Helen Rainbird, Lorna Unwin

   Series: Improving Learning

   Across the western world, there is a growing awareness of the importance of workplace learning, seen at the level of national and international policy, as well as in the developing practices of employers, training providers and Trades Unions. Authoritative, accessible, and appealing, it presents...

   Published August 30th 2006 by Routledge
9. Teaching and Learning in Further Education

   2nd Edition

   By Prue Huddleston, Lorna Unwin

   Published August 21st 2002 by Routledge
10. Working to Learn

    Transforming Learning in the Workplace

    Edited by Karen Evans, Phil Hodkinson, Lorna Unwin

    The workplace is an important site for learning in today's society. This book examines the changing nature of the work and effect that this has on the skill and knowledge requirements of individuals, its implications for employment, and ways in which these changing requirements can be met....

    Published February 28th 2002 by Routledge