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Becoming‐worker: vocational training for workers in aged care

Pages 471-481 | Published online: 01 Dec 2006

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Debra Palesy & Stephen Billett. (2017) Learning manual handling without direct supervision or support: a case study of home care workers. Social Work Education 36:3, pages 273-288.
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Jane Fenton & David Miller. (2014) Handle with Care: Self-esteem Influences on Students Undertaking Personal Care Tasks. Social Work Education 33:2, pages 224-239.
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Fredrik Sandberg & Chris Kubiak. (2013) Recognition of prior learning, self-realisation and identity within Axel Honneth's theory of recognition. Studies in Continuing Education 35:3, pages 351-365.
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Kristina Westerberg & Jan Hjelte. (2013) The impact of elderly care competence and quality improvement programme in four Swedish municipalities. Journal of Vocational Education & Training 65:3, pages 319-332.
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Per Andersson, Andreas Fejes & Fredrik Sandberg. (2013) Introducing research on recognition of prior learning. International Journal of Lifelong Education 32:4, pages 405-411.
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Kristina Westerberg, Jan Hjelte, Jan Brännström & Ulf Hyvönen. (2012) The Meaning of a Knowledge-based Organization in Swedish Municipal Elderly Care. Social Work Education 31:4, pages 465-484.
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Andreas Fejes & Katherine Nicoll. (2010) A vocational calling: exploring a caring technology in elderly care. Pedagogy, Culture & Society 18:3, pages 353-370.
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Margaret Somerville, Margaret Plunkett & Michael Dyson. (2010) New teachers learning in rural and regional Australia. Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education 38:1, pages 39-55.
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Konstantinos Kakavelakis, Alan Felstead, Alison Fuller, Nick Jewson & Lorna Unwin. (2008) Making a sales advisor: the limits of training ‘instrumental empathy’. Journal of Vocational Education & Training 60:3, pages 209-221.
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Joshua D. Hawley. (2008) Vocational-technical schooling and occupational matching in Thailand: differences between men and women. Asia Pacific Journal of Education 28:2, pages 189-205.
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Tobias Lasse Karlsson. (2022) Being someone or doing something: How students in municipal adult education view their future vocation. Nordic Journal of Vocational Education and Training 12:3, pages 71-94.
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Hans Gruber & Christian HarteisHans Gruber & Christian Harteis. 2018. Individual and Social Influences on Professional Learning. Individual and Social Influences on Professional Learning 15 29 .
Debra Palesy. (2017) Learning in the Absence of Direct Supervision: Person-Dependent Scaffolding. Vocations and Learning 10:3, pages 365-382.
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Suzanne Hodgkin, Jeni Warburton, Pauline Savy & Melissa Moore. (2017) Workforce Crisis in Residential Aged Care: Insights from Rural, Older Workers. Australian Journal of Public Administration 76:1, pages 93-105.
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Debra Palesy & Stephen Billett. 2017. Agency at Work. Agency at Work 271 289 .
Debra Palesy. (2016) Australian Home Care Workers’ Learning of Safe Manual Handling. Home Health Care Management & Practice 28:4, pages 216-223.
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Debra Palesy. (2016) Home Health Aide Training. Home Healthcare Now 34:7, pages 381-387.
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Andreas Fejes & Per Andersson. 2015. Working and Learning in Times of Uncertainty. Working and Learning in Times of Uncertainty 145 156 .
Fredrik Sandberg. (2014) A reconstructive analysis of the potential for critical learning and change in recognition of prior learning: a Habermasian analysis. British Educational Research Journal 40:4, pages 682-698.
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Fredrik Sandberg. 2014. Promoting, Assessing, Recognizing and Certifying Lifelong Learning. Promoting, Assessing, Recognizing and Certifying Lifelong Learning 235 248 .
Hélène Mountford. (2013) I'll take care of you: the use of supportive work practices to retain older workers. Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources 51:3, pages 272-291.
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Fredrik Sandberg. (2011) A Habermasian Analysis of a Process of Recognition of Prior Learning for Health Care Assistants. Adult Education Quarterly 62:4, pages 351-370.
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Anne Winther Jensen. (2011) Competing discourses and the positioning of students in an adult basic education programme. European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults 2:1, pages 107-121.
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