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Title What makes workers learn : the role of incentives in workplace education and training / edited by Donald Hirsch, Daniel A. Wagner
Published Cresskill, N.J. : Hampton Press, [1995]
©1995

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Description x, 213 pages ; 24 cm
Series Series on literacy
Series on literacy.
Contents Series Preface / Daniel A. Wagner -- Foreword / Jarl Bengtsson -- Introduction / Donald Hirsch and Daniel A. Wagner -- 1. Adult Learning and Work: Finance, Incentives and Certification / Paul Ryan -- 2. Do Most Employers and Workers Underinvest in Training and Learning on the Job? / John H. Bishop -- 3. Worker Access to Vocational Training: A Legal Approach / Jean Marie Luttringer -- 4. Legal Incentives and the New Workforce / Thierry Noyelle and Donald Hirsch -- 5. Organizational Change and Adult Learning / Larry Hirschhorn -- 6. Workplace Learning in Changing Environments: A Researcher/Practitioner's Viewpoint / Bill Ford -- 7. Learning at and through the Workplace: A Review of Participation and Adult Learning Theory / Kjell Rubenson and Hans G. Schutze -- 8. Functional Context Education for Schoolplaces and Workplaces / Thomas G. Sticht -- 9. Workplace Literacy Programs: Organization and Incentives / Larry Mikulecky
10. Workplace Basic Skills Programs in the United Kingdom: Why So Few? / Alan Wells -- 11. Incentives for Adult Learning in Developing Countries: Lessons and Comparisons / Laurel Puchner -- 12. Adult Learning under Conditions of Hardship: Evidence from Developing and Developed Countries / Nelly P. Stromquist
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-206) and indexes
Subject Motivation in education.
Occupational training -- Psychological aspects.
Vocational education -- Psychological aspects.
Author Hirsch, Donald.
Wagner, Daniel A., 1946-
LC no. 94028030
ISBN 1881303233 (cloth)
1881303241 (paperback)