Work Related Learning Research: key categories

02-February-2005

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The group working on structuring resources on 'research on work-related learning' is principally drawn from projects in the Teaching and Learning Research Programme, with support from researchers from IER and SKOPE. This is an inclusive activity and we would welcome contributions and ideas from others too.

The current developments on the site demonstrated the potential to cluster issues related to work-related learning. From a TLRP perspective the group felt that it would be important to produce some narratives that through hyper-linking allowed users to go in different directions and also allowed for different perspectives. It was felt that the initial clustering was important as this needed to support investigation of theoretical and methodological issues as well learning processes and to allow switching between different levels of analysis.

In order to allow for different lenses with which it would be possible to view research on work-related learning the group felt that 12 - 20 branches might be about the right number for ease of organisation. After discussions in small groups at two meetings the group as a whole came up with the following ten categories:

  • Research Methodologies / Strategies
  • Theoretical bases
  • Learning contexts and settings
  • Organisational learning and work design
  • Strategies for enhancing learning
  • Factors affecting learning
  • Policy (national / regional / organisational)
  • Learning processes
  • Knowledge at work
  • Learning trajectories and transfer

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