Work-based learning in US higher education policy

Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 10-15

  Raelin, Joseph A ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Experiential learning; Higher education; Reflection; United States of America; Workplace learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873170893     PISSN: 20423896     EISSN: 2042390X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/20423891111085357     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Association of American Medical Colleges (1998), “Physicians for the twenty-first century”, Report of the Project Panel on the General Professional Education for the Physician, Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, DC.
2. Bastedo, M. (2002), “General education”, in Forest, J. and Kinser, K. (Eds), Higher Education in the United States, ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, CA, pp. 273-6.
3. Billett, S., Smith, R. and Barker, M. (2005), “Understanding work, learning and the remaking of cultural practices”, Studies in Continuing Education, Vol. 27 No. 3, pp. 219-37.
4. Braxton, J.M. (2005), “Reflections on a scholarship of practice”, Review of Higher Education, Vol. 28 No. 2, pp. 285-93.
5. Damasio, A.R. (1994), Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain, Putnam, New York, NY.
6. Dewey, J. (1938), Experience and Education, Macmillan, New York, NY.
7. Freeland, R.M. (2004), “The third way”, Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 294 No. 3, pp. 141-7.
8. Glynn, S.M., Aultman, L.P. and Owens, A.M. (2005), “Motivation to learn in general education programs”, Journal of General Education, Vol. 54 No. 2, pp. 150-70.
9. Hamilton, M.A. and Hamilton, S.F. (1997), “When is work a learning experience”, Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 78 No. 9, pp. 682-9.
10. Hollenbeck, K.M. (1997), “School-to-work: promise and effectiveness”, Upjohn Institute Employment Research, Vol. 4 No. 2, pp. 5-6.
11. Jobs to Careers (2009), Promoting Work-based Learning for Quality Care. A Program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Collaboration with the Hitachi Foundation and the United States Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration and with Technical Assistance provided by Jobs for the Future, available at: www.jobs2careers.org/ (accessed December 20, 2009).
12. Letiche, H. and Van Hattem, R. (2000), “Self and organization: knowledge work and fragmentation”, Journal of Organizational Change Management, Vol. 13 No. 4, pp. 93-107.
13. MacCrate, R. (1992), Legal Education and Professional Development – An Educational Continuum Report of the Task Force on Law Schools and the Profession: Narrowing the Gap, American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admission to the Bar, Washington, DC.
14. Mintzberg, H. (2004), Managers Not MBAs: A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development, Berrett-Koehler, San Francisco, CA.
15. Ng, T.W.H. and Feldman, D.C. (2007), “The school-to-work transition: a role identity perspective”, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Vol. 71 No. 1, pp. 114-34.
16. Raelin, J.A. (2007), “Toward an epistemology of practice”, Academy of Management Learning and Education, Vol. 6 No. 4, pp. 495-519.
17. Raelin, J.A. (2008), Work-based Learning: Bridging Knowledge and Action in the Workplace, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA.
18. Styhre, A. (2003), “Knowledge as a virtual asset: Bergson's notion of virtuality and organizational knowledge”, Culture and Organization, Vol. 9 No. 1, pp. 15-26.
19. von Glasersfeld, E. (2008), “Learning as a constructive activity”, Antimatters, Vol. 2 No. 3, pp. 33-49.
20. Wilson, R. (2006), Invisible No Longer: Advancing the Entry-level Workforce in Health Care, Jobs for the Future, Boston, MA.
21. Work-BasedLearning.Org (2009), The State of Workplace Education in the States: A Policy Perspective, web site created by the Conference Board with Financial Support from the US Department of Labor, available at: www.work-basedlearning.org/public.cfm (accessed December 24, 2009).