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- English
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About this book
Trade unions have historically been involved in education and training in the workplace. This activity has gained greater credence and importance in the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Denmark due to the recent emergence of union learning representatives (ULRs) and Educational Ambassadors, who are a new category of trained, accredited and unpaid lay representatives based in the workplace. Their key role is to give advice and guidance to colleagues in relation to professional development, learning and training opportunities available.
These representatives work in partnership with other stakeholders, namely employers and education providers to ensure that individuals can attend educational and training courses that will help them from both a personal and work perspective. There are now 22, 000 ULRs in the UK alone and they are playing a significant part in pushing the present Labour administration's drive to expand and improve lifelong learning to create a learning society that benefits individuals, organisations and ultimately the nation and its economy. They have rewritten the rules of the workplace by helping to replace distrust and adversarial relations with partnership working based on mutual respect and trust.
This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of In-Service Education.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Abstracts
- Introduction: Union Learning Representatives and the Professional Development Agenda
- 1. Unions and learning: an historical overview
- 2. The evolving role of union learning representatives
- 3. Understanding the role of union learning representatives in developing distinctive approaches to union learning
- 4. Challenging the orthodoxy: union learning representatives as organic intellectuals
- 5. Learning agreements and socially responsible approaches to professional and human resource development in the United Kingdom
- 6. Partnership out of conflict: the emerging relationship of teacher learning representatives and local authority continuing professional development quality improvement officers in Scotland
- 7. In-service learning in the emergent learning representative initiative in New Zealand
- 8. The New Zealand Learning Representatives Project: an assessment of the pilot years
- 9. Educational Ambassadors in the Danish trade union movement
- Index