Cutting it: Learning and Work performance in Hairdressing Salons Project in progress so preliminary findings so far will be presented. industry profile - smaller businesses, some larger salons who tend to have their own training schools. Entry to industry -…

The conference has had a huge range of speakers. When I first looked at the program I thought ‘wow! how on earth am I going to get to everything I want.’ But in looking more carefully at the abstracts and papers, it became clearer. Being able to pick and…

CBT at the edge of Chaos Finding the room was the first test! Should we push competence further, not just skills, knowledge and attitudes to perform to the work tasks, or rather should it be pushed to encompass the “emergent and evolutionary ability to adapt…

Dimensions of On-the-Job learning styles in the nursing profession Hypothesis - if we make employees aware of their OTJ learning styles then they will learn better in the workplace. Learning styles that are in circulation aren’t ideally suited to OTJ…

Common Knowledge technologies we rely on are frail, it is the social activities that make them strong Brown & Duguid 2001 through working in globalised workspace work practice textual practice - artefacts are strongly text based ‘Knowledge is not transmitted…