Agency at Work: An Agentic Perspective on Professional Learning and Development (Professional and Practice-based Learning #20)
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- Synopsis
- Michael Goller gives a structured overview of the current discourses of human agency in relation to professional learning and development. Based on this discussion, the author develops a theoretical framework including human agency as an individual feature (i. e. , a disposition) as well as a set of self-initiated and goal-directed behaviours that are assumed to affect employees' learning and development (e. g. , crafting of new work experiences). He then further specifies this theoretical framework and investigates it empirically in the domain of geriatric care nursing. Based on the findings of the three empirical studies conducted, the author discusses the relevance of human agency for the development of professional expertise of geriatric care nurses.
- Copyright:
- 2017
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- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9783319609430
- Related ISBNs:
- 9783319609423
- Publisher:
- Springer International Publishing, Cham
- Date of Addition:
- 07/23/18
- Copyrighted By:
- Springer
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Education, Medicine
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.
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