Theories of Learning for the Workplace

Filip Dochy is Professor of Research on Learning & Development and Corporate Training at the University of Leuven, Belgium. He is founding editor of the Educational Research Review and a member of the EARLI Executive Committee. He is also a Special Professor of Educational Innovation & IT at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. David Gijbels is Assistant Professor of Learning and Instruction at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He is Associate Editor of Educational Research Review and coordinator of EARLI's special interest group on Learning and Professional Development. Mien Segers is Professor of Corporate Learning in the Department of Educational Research and Development at the Maastricht University School of Business and Economics, the Netherlands. She is also Series Editor for the EARLI book series, New Perspectives on Learning and Instruction. Piet Van den Bossche is Assistant Professor at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, and at Maastricht University, the Netherlands.

Chapter 1. Deliberate practice, the highroad to expertise - K. A. Ericsson Margje W. J. van de Wiel, Piet Van den Bossche & Richard P. Koopmans Chapter 2. Workplace curriculum: practice and propositions Stephen Billett Chapter 3. Transformational learning. The perspective of J. Mezirow Mien Segers & Maurice De Greef Chapter 4. The Experiential Learning Theory: Kolb and Boud Mien Segers & Selma Van de Haar Chapter 5. From the theory of situated cognition to communities of practice - J. Lave and E. Wenger Stephen Hargreaves & David Gijbels Chapter 6. The reflective practitioner - D. Schoen Piet Van den Bossche & Simon Beausaert Chapter 7. Systems thinking and building learning organisations - P. Senge Filip Dochy, Jan Laurijssen & Eva Kyndt Chapter 8. On organisational learning - C. Argyris David Gijbels & Roel Spaenhoven Chapter 9. Interorganisational expansive learning at work Filip Dochy, Yrjoe Engestroem, Annalisa Sannino and Niel Van Meeuwen