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Synthesising Research Findings on Workplace Learning: the Experience of the UK Teaching and Learning Research Programme in Linking with other Workplace Learning Researchers in Europe and Australia
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Alan Brown, University of Warwick, ENGLAND
This paper has a dual purpose. First, we will outline the attempts made by UK’s Teaching and Learning Research Programme (TLRP) in collaboration with the Institute for Employment Research (IER) at knowledge exchange, combination, development and synthesis associated with researching workplace learning. This will trace the shift in approach from an attempt to provide a fairly comprehensive web-based repository of workplace learning research organised around ten themes to a more modest proposal of producing six web-based commentaries on contemporary topics in workplace learning research. Allied to this shift there was also a switch in focus from TLRP to trying to facilitate substantive collaboration at the level of national and European programmes to promoting more interchange at the level of projects. This links to our second purpose: we are interested in how we could link the findings from TLRP / IER research with findings from a range of other workplace learning projects drawn from across the world. So in this paper we take the themes from the other three papers in this symposium and see if we ‘add value’ to the discussions by considering whether TLRP / IER research can engage with their findings.
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This paper has a dual purpose. First, we will outline the attempts made by UK’s Teaching and Learning Research Programme (TLRP) in collaboration with the Institute for Employment Research (IER) at knowledge exchange, combination, development and synthesis associated with researching workplace learning. Secondly, we are interested in how we could link the findings from TLRP / IER research with findings from a range of other workplace learning projects drawn from across the world. So in this paper we take the themes from the other three papers in this symposium and see if we ‘add value’ to the discussions.
