Toward a 3-P Model of Workplace Learning: A Literature Review

Vocations and Learning

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 11-36

  Tynjälä, Päivi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Communities of practice; Competence development; Organisational learning; Professional expertise; Work identity; Workplace learning; Workplace pedagogy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874699979     PISSN: 1874785X     EISSN: 18747868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12186-012-9091-z     Document Type: Review

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