PROFESSIONS, COMPETENCE AND INFORMAL LEARNING. LEARNING IN...

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"This book takes a fresh look at professions - their history and sociology, and at the nature both of professional practice and professional competence. Based on research by the authors across 20 varied professions, the book offers an innovative model of professional competence and throws new light on how competence is acquired. It identifies a range of informal learning processes, which seem to be just as important to becoming competent as formal training. As a result, the authors suggest a paradigm of professional development that combines informal and formal learning and also brings together academic and competence-based approaches."--Jacket.

subjects: Labour economics,  Personnel & human resources management,  Professional Development,  Human Resources & Personnel Management,  Business & Economics,  Politics / Current Events,  Business/Economics,  Labor & Industrial Relations - General,  Professional employees,  Training of,  Professions,  Sociological aspects,  Psychology of Learning,  Professionnels salariés,  Formation,  Apprentissage, Psychologie de l',  Professions libérales,  Aspect sociologique,  Beruf,  Fähigkeit,  Informelles Lernen,  Arbeidservaring,  Leerprocessen,  Deskundigheid,  Professions, sociological aspects,  Learning, psychology of,  Employees, training of