Through the analysis of theory, research and practice, this Handbook provides the reader with a clear, global picture of workplace learning.
Margaret Malloch, PhD, is recently appointed as Reader, at the University of East London, England from her role as a Senior Lecturer at Victoria University, Australia, in which she coordinated postgraduate programs focusing on Workplace Learning and professional practice. She has several years′ membership of the Executive Committee of the Workplace Learning Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association. Margaret has researched women in Vocational Unions, Women in Education and Change as well as more recent work on the Capable Organisation and Implications for Vocational Education and Training, specifically employers′ views of competency-based qualifications. She is a Past Chair of the American Educational Research Association′s Special Interest Group, Workplace Learning, and is a member of the VETNET Board n the European Educational Research Association.
Len Cairns, PhD, is Associate Professor and Associate Dean (Development) in the Faculty of Education at Monash University Australia. He also holds an ongoing Visiting Professor position in the Institute of Work Based Learning at Middlesex University in London. He teaches in the Master of Organisational Leadership and Master of School Leadership programmes at Monash, and is researching and writing in the fields of Workplace Learning, Capability and Leadership. Recent published studies have focussed on Developing Capability through Leadership, Intercultural Capability in Management Education and the impact of NVQs (and related competency-based qualifications) on learning in organisations. A recent volume with Professor John Stephenson, Capable Workplace Learning is in press. Len has recently completed a four year research and development programme on Educational Leaders with Professor Peter Gronn funded by the Australian and Victorian State governments. Len is a past Chair of the Workplace Learning Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association.
Karen Evans, PhD, is Chair in Education (Lifelong Learning) at the Institute of Education, University of London; Co-Director of the Centre for Excellence in Work-Based Learning for Education Professionals and past Head of the School of Lifelong Education and International Development. She has directed numerous international research studies on workplace learning and on learning in life and work transitions. Her previous books include Learning, Work and Social Responsibility (Springer 2009); Improving Workplace Learning (Routledge, 2006); Reconnection: Countering Social Exclusion through Situated Learning (Springer 2004) Working to Learn: Transforming Learning in the Workplace (Routledge 2002) and Learning and Work in the Risk Society (Palgrave 2000). Her international interests are also reflected in her editorship of the journal of international and comparative education COMPARE, between 2004 and 2009.
Bridget N. O′Connor, Ph.D, is Professor of Higher Education and Business Education at New York University. She is the coauthor of Learning at Work (HRD Press, 2007) End-user Information Systems: Implementing Individual and Group Technologies (Prentice Hall, 2002) and Training for Organizations (South-Western, 2002). She is a past president of the Organizational Systems Research Association and was chair of its two national model curriculum projects and editor of its journal, Information Technology, Learning and Performance Journal. She is a Past Chair of the American Educational Research Association′s Special Interest Group, Workplace Learning. She is also a past Chairperson of the New York University Faculty Senators Council. In 2006, she was a Fulbright Senior Specialist at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia.
