Setting the Context
B2: Defining the
Profession
After small group discussions describing key elements of
Workplace Education, a small group of participants prepared the following
composite definition of the field.
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"The field of Workplace Education should encompass
collaborative, responsive, intentional activities founded on principles of
Adult Education, designed to further learning opportunities and events,
applicable to work in Canada." |
Other definitions:
- Workplace Education is a collaborative effort to provide
opportunities for essential skills learning.
- Workplace Education is …intentional and responsive
education through the workplace.
- Workplace Education is a delivery model that responds
quickly and flexibly to the essential skill gaps/needs of employees in the
context of their work needs
- Workplace education encompasses partnership-based research,
promotion, development, delivery, or evaluation activities designed to further
quality learning opportunities that enhance the essential skills of the
Canadian workforce.
- Workplace Education is:
- a sustainable strategy for dealing with change
- planned and implemented with all stakeholders
- formal and informal learning based on principles of adult
education
- training and development and company practice
- continuing support for the change process
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