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Workplace Learning Initiatives is committed to creating holistic and continuously evolving learning environments. Therefore our staff are not only involved in workplace training, development and assessment roles, but also in research and resource development.
The following is a list of publications produced by the WLI team. Should you required any further information regarding any of the products listed here, please contact us.
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Working from Strengths: Cross sectoral exchange to enrich adult literacy services
As a product of an NCVER funded project, WLI has developed a resource that explores the application of Strength Based Practice to adult basic education: Working from Strength: Venturing towards strength based adult education.
Strength Based Practice is an approach borrowed from the welfare sector for the support and recovery of welfare clients. This approach turns the tables on the traditions which say that people who are ‘failing’ need to be guided by a specialist to regain the path of the straight and narrow. Strength Based Practice supports individuals to find their own path in life and to utilize all the resources available to build their strengths. The focus is on self understanding and self management.
Traditional education is heavy with experts and benchmarks for learners to reach. Strength Based Education breaks this tradition to centre on individuals and their command of their own learning in achieving personal benchmarks.
This resource describes the techniques used to develop self management skills in the welfare environment. It argues that an adaptation to an educational environment is a small step particularly given the reframing of the National Reporting System in the Australian Literacy Skills Framework.
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Provision and development: Exploring employers’ views of literacy, numeracy and employability
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Lean Manufacturing: Putting the customer first
This CD-ROM is part of a suite of products which has been developed especially for workers who may need help with reading, writing and/or numeracy tasks. Learners who are new to lean manufacturing or who need to refresh their knowledge will also find the resources useful.
This CD-ROM contains Resource Sheets, a Trainer Guide and a Learner Guide that may be printed out, or bought separately.
The resources have been mapped against the following units of competency from MCM30104 Certificate III in Competitive Manufacturing:
MCMS201A – Sustain process improvements
MCMT280A – Undertake root cause analysis
MCMT231A – Interpret product costs in terms of customer requirements
MCMT270A – Use sustainable energy practices
MCMT271A – Use sustainable environmental practices
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Lean Manufacturing: Solving problems working together
This CD-ROM is part of a suite of products which has been developed especially for workers who may need help with reading, writing and/or numeracy tasks. Learners who are new to lean manufacturing or who need to refresh their knowledge will also find the resources useful.
This CD-ROM contains Resource Sheets, a Trainer Guide and a Learner Guide that may be printed out, or bought separately.
The resources have been mapped against the following units of competency from MCM30104 Certificate III in Competitive Manufacturing:
MCMS200A – Apply competitive manufacturing practices
PMASUP390A – Use structured problem solving tools
MCMT240A – Apply 5S procedures in a manufacturing environment |
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Creating Synergies: Initiating and sustaining cross sectoral partnerships
This study investigates the development of four ‘learning communities’, each involving cross-sectoral partners such as schools, adult community educators, vocational/TAFE personnel, local government and industry/employers. It highlights the importance of appreciating the differences of culture, perception and purpose amongst different stakeholders within social partnerships and actively managing the interfaces between the different players.
The report comprises two volumes; the first provides an overview of the study and its findings, the second volume provides the detailed case studies.
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Peter Waterhouse & Crina Virgona |
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2005 |
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Research Report |
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Print and CD |
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This publication is available from NCVER |
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Getting the Job Done: How employers use and value accredited training leading to a qualification
This study aims to gain a better understanding of how employers perceive and appreciate vocational education and training and the qualifications it offers. The report has some sobering messages for those aiming to promote mainstream training to industry and employers.
Click on the title link above for more information on this study.
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Ray Townsend, Peter Waterhouse & Marg Malloch |
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2005 |
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Research report |
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This publication is available from NCVER |
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Contradicting the Stereotype: Case studies of success despite adult literacy difficulties
This research explores the lives of ‘positively deviant’ individuals who have ‘contradicted the stereotype’ by becoming successful despite their continuing difficulties, with literacy. The adults who shared their life stories, all from English speaking backgrounds, have developed strategies to compensate for their disabilities in reading and writing. Their lives, which have been captured in digital stories on a CD-ROM, provide valuable insights for adults with literacy difficulties; for adult educators working in this field; and for employers and others who may be overlooking the strengths and capabilities of individuals. Too often perception is coloured by a lens which highlights disability rather than capability.
One of the digital stories from the project can be downloaded free by following the title link above.
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Peter Waterhouse & Crina Virgona |
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2005 |
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Research report with CD-Rom |
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Print and CD-Rom |
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This publication is available from NCVER |
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The ACE Experience: Pedagogies for life and employability
This study for the Board of Adult Community and Further Education in Victoria , was conducted by Dr. Jill Sanguinetti and Dr. David Maunders, from Victoria University , with Dr. Peter Waterhouse from WLI as a key member of the research team. The project took the form of collaborative action-research with groups of adult community educators. The research investigates and documents what happens in adult community education to foster the development of generic/employability skills. It led to the development of a comprehensive ‘framework’ on adult community education pedagogy as a tool for practitioners, managers and policy makers.
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Jill Sanguinetti, David Maunders & Peter Waterhouse |
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2004 |
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Research Report |
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Print and download |
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The report can be downloaded from ACFE |
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Two Dimensional Work: workplace literacy in the aged care & call centre industries
This study, also for the National Centre for Vocational Education Research, investigates the generic/employability skills of individuals who have been displaced from work. Based on face-to-face interviews with 120 individuals the study highlights the importance of experiential learning. It also identifies the importance of individuals critically thinking about their capabilities, ‘unpacking’ and ‘re-packing’ skills to enable transfer between work situations.
Click on the title link above for more information on this study.
Authors: |
Peter Waterhouse & Crina Virgona |
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2004 |
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Research report |
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This publication is available from NCVER |
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Making Experience Work: Generic Skills through the eyes of displaced workers
This study, also for the National Centre for Vocational Education Research, investigates the generic/employability skills of individuals who had been displaced from work. Based on face-to-face interviews with 120 individuals the study highlighted the importance of experiential learning. It also identified the importance of individuals critically thinking about their capabilities, ‘unpacking’ and ‘re-packing’ skills to enable transfer between work situations.
Click on the title link above for more information on this study.
Authors: |
Crina Virgona, Peter Waterhouse, Robin Sefton & Jill Sanguinetti |
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2003 |
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Research report |
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This publication is available from NCVER |
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The Changing Nature & Patterns of Work & Implications for VET
An overview of recent literature on changes in the nature and patterns of work and implications for Vocational Education & Training.
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Peter Waterhouse, Bruce Wilson & Peter Ewer |
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1999 |
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Research Report |
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This publication is available from NCVER |
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The Food Safety for Maintenance Contractors Kit
The Food Safety for Maintenance Contractor Kit is designed to raise awareness about food safety and maintenance contractor practices in food businesses. The Kit promotes a collaborative approach between food businesses and maintenance contractors to ensure that a 'duty of care' is demonstrated by both parties and the chances of food contamination are reduced or eliminated.
The Food Safety for Maintenance Contractors Kit comprises 4 sections and these can be used in a number of different combinations :
- A series of six Food Safety Fact Sheets plus an Introduction to the Fact Sheets and a Written Agreement.
- A Pocket Booklet with key information about food safety practices.
- A video, Trade Secrets: Contractors & Food Safety Procedures about good food safety practices for maintenance contractors working in food businesses.
- Training Materials, Food Safety for Maintenance Contractors, which develop knowledge, understanding and awareness of good food safety work practices for maintenance contractors working in food businesses.
Authors: |
Nadia Casarotto, Linda Wyse & Jim Hinton |
Date: |
1999 |
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Kit & Video |
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This publication is available from NCVER |
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Opening Doors: Tickart Project
Opening Doors - Enterprise Based Training in Action' is an innovative and unusual training program which reflects a company's specific needs, skills and processes, used as a demonstration of Best Practice in educational effectiveness.
The project components include a Professional Development Kit featuring resources for a full day workshop, a Videocassette and the Tickcart Project Case Study - the focus of the training program.
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Crina Virgona, Robin Sefton, Peter Waterhouse & Neil Marshall |
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1998 |
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Report & Video/DVD |
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Tickcart Project Professional Development Kit
The kit consists of three parts:
- a workshop manual
- a set of presenter's guide
- a set of workshop resources
The Workshop Manual is designed to be completed as participants respond to the activities throughout the course of the workshop. The kit was prepared as the basis of a full day workshop. It has been designed to assist participants to realise the potential for best practice training within industry and to assist them to transfer the approach to their own and other training environments.
A brief summary of the Tickcart Project is available in the Presenter's Guide . The Presenter's Guide is written for those who wish to adapt or reproduce the workshop for another audience. It gives background information about the activities and offers suggestions on presenting them, and provides a Set of Workshop Resources. The kit also contains a bibliography for those interested in deepening their understanding of this approach to industry training.
The kit is accompanied by a Video :- Opening Doors - Enterprise Based Training in Action.
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Crina Virgona & Neil Marshall |
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1998 |
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Professional Development Kit |
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Workplace Learning and Change
Through 4 case studies Workplace Learning Initiatives’ researchers ask the questions:
- what makes an effective learning environment?
- what role does training play in creating a workplace learning environment?
Essential reading for trainers, manages and researchers interested in identifying the characteristics of a workplace learning environment.
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Robin Sefton, Peter Waterhouse & Richard Cooney |
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1995 |
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Breathing Life into Training
A Model of Integrated Training
Case studies of integrated training programs developed and implemented with shopfloor personnel, managers, technicians and supervisors as well as union representatives.
‘a premier example of what workplace education can and should be . . . theoretically sound and innovative in practice . . . this report should be read by anyone nationally, internationally who is involved in workplace education . . . a stellar effort, one that leads the way’
Prof Glynda Hull
University of California
‘its strength lies in its illustration that industry training built on sound educational principles can be very effective indeed’
Assoc Prof John Pollock
Dept of Industry Training RMIT
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Robin Sefton, Peter Waterhouse & Rosemary Deakin |
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1994 |
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last updated
16-Jul-2008 |
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