More than Meets the Eye? [microform] : Rethinking the Role of Workplace Trainer / Roger Harris, Michele Simons and John Bone
- Bib ID:
- 5674422
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Harris, Roger
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED446262
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- Description:
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 2000
- 102 p.
- ISBN:
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- 9780873976350
- 0873976355
- Summary:
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A study explored the role of the workplace trainer in the building of training/learning cultures in workplaces in Australia. Following a literature review, stage 1 data collection involved observations and interviews in 18 enterprises in New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia where trainers were facilitating learning with one or two employees/learners. Five key functions and 32 trainer actions were identified and formed the nucleus of stage 2, a telephone interview survey of 350 workplace trainers. Findings indicated penetration and impact of workplace trainer competency standards were low; informal workplace training was very common; there was a high incidence of trainer actions related to encouraging self direction in learning in employees and structuring and shaping processes to accommodate learning; frequency of many trainer actions in the workplace was significantly mediated by context-specific factors; the majority of trainer actions did not directly match competencies in the training packet; and only very few respondents reported that juggling working and assisting others to learn was not an issue. Learning network theory provided a useful framework for rethinking the role of the workplace trainer. Implications relevant to the National Strategy for VET were concerned with quality of training provision, building a training/learning culture, and further research. (Appendixes include 62 references, instruments, and data.) (YLB)
- Notes:
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- Availability: National Centre for Vocational Education Research, 252 Kensington Road, Leabrook, South Australia 5068, Australia; Tel: 08 8333 8400, Fax: 08 8331 9211, E-mail: vet_req@ncver.edu.au; Web site: http://www.ncver.edu.au (free). For full text: http://www.ncver.edu.au/cgi-bin/gda.pl?id=1639/research/proj/nr7035.pdf.
- Sponsoring Agency: Australian National Training Authority, Brisbane.
- May also be available online. Address as at 14/8/18: https://eric.ed.gov/
- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
- Subject:
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- Developed Nations
- Education Work Relationship
- Educational Environment
- Educational Research
- Foreign Countries
- Informal Education
- Job Skills
- On the Job Training
- Organizational Climate
- School Culture
- Teacher Role
- Telephone Surveys
- Theory Practice Relationship
- Trainers
- Vocational Education
- Work Environment
- Australia (New South Wales) Australia (South Australia) Australia (Victoria)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Available From:
- ERIC
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2000
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