Learning from others at work: communities of practice and informal learning

By David Boud, H. Middleton. 2003

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Subfields: Education, Human Factors and Ergonomics

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Surveying the scene: learning metaphors, survey design and the workplace context (2005, background): “In-depth studies of a wide variety of jobs—such as engineers, accountants, nurses, miners and teachers (Eraut et al., 1998; Fevre et al., 2001; Boud & Middleton, 2003; Hodkinson & Hodkinson, 2004)—suggest that a great deal of learning goes on at work that is not picked up by standard survey…”
Skills development in higher education in Vietnam (2009, background): “Graduates with these experiences also show how to have more initiative and effective learning from others when working in a group (Boud and Middleton 2003 ).”
A systematic review of faculty development initiatives designed to improve teaching effectiveness in medical education: BEME Guide No. 8 (2006, background): “More recently, the idea of learning through participation in communities of practice has also been explored (Lave & Wenger, 1991; Boud & Middleton, 2003), and this notion will have important implications for faculty development.”
A Cross-Level Test of Empowerment and Process Influences on Members’ Informal Learning and Team Commitment (2015, background): “Indeed, there is little empirical evidence on informal learning generally, and several authors have argued that we have an incomplete understanding of how it operates in work organizations (Boud & Middleton, 2003; Skule, 2004).”
‘Cigars on the flight‐deck’: new lecturers’ participatory learning within workplace communities of practice (2008, positive): “Nonetheless, Boud and Middleton ( 2003 , 200–201) usefully distinguish between ‘loosely‐coupled’ and ‘tightly‐coupled’ communities.”
“We Really Felt Part of Something”: Participatory learning among peers within a university teaching‐development community of practice (2006, background): “Boud and Middleton (2003) similarly distinguish loosely coupled from tightly coupled communities.”
Factors influencing teachers' engagement in informal learning activities (2006, background): “Recent studies have made important progress in developing greater understandings of the types of work-based activities associated with informal learning as well as personal and contextual factors that tend to promote or inhibit participation in informal learning ( Boud and Middleton, 2003”
Learning for the workplace: a case study in graduate employees' generic competencies (2005, background): “In other words, employers prefer workers who have generic competencies like interpersonal skills, leadership skills (Mason, 1992; Quek, 1996a; Lee, 2000), teamwork (Ball, 1989; Kanapathy, 2001; Boud and Middleton, 2003), and oral and written skills (Schroder, 1989; Jacobsen, 1993; Lee et al.”
Learning at the workplace (2009, neutral): “Indeed Boud and Middleton (2003) found that learning from peers is a predominant mode in work sites;”
Contributing to a graduate-centred understanding of work readiness: An exploratory study of Australian undergraduate students' perceptions of their employability (2015, background): “This gap is gradually being filled and it is expected by 2020 that workforce communities have greater input into the reviewing and moderating academic standards (Boud and Middleton 2003).”