Margaret Malloch, PhD, is recently appointed as Reader, at the University of East London, England from her role as a Senior Lecturer at Victoria University, Australia, in which she coordinated postgraduate programs focusing on Workplace Learning and professional practice. She has several years′ membership of the Executive Committee of the Workplace Learning Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association. Margaret has researched women in Vocational Unions, Women in Education and Change as well as more recent work on the Capable Organisation and Implications for Vocational Education and Training, specifically employers′ views of competency-based qualifications. She is a Past Chair of the American Educational Research Association′s Special Interest Group, Workplace Learning, and is a member of the VETNET Board n the European Educational Research Association.

Len Cairns, PhD, is Associate Professor and Associate Dean (Development) in the Faculty of Education at Monash University Australia. He also holds an ongoing Visiting Professor position in the Institute of Work Based Learning at Middlesex University in London. He teaches in the Master of Organisational Leadership and Master of School Leadership programmes at Monash, and is researching and writing in the fields of Workplace Learning, Capability and Leadership. Recent published studies have focussed on Developing Capability through Leadership, Intercultural Capability in Management Education and the impact of NVQs (and related competency-based qualifications) on learning in organisations. A recent volume with Professor John Stephenson, Capable Workplace Learning is in press. Len has recently completed a four year research and development programme on Educational Leaders with Professor Peter Gronn funded by the Australian and Victorian State governments. Len is a past Chair of the Workplace Learning Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association.

Karen Evans, PhD, is Chair in Education (Lifelong Learning) at the Institute of Education, University of London; Co-Director of the Centre for Excellence in Work-Based Learning for Education Professionals and past Head of the School of Lifelong Education and International Development. She has directed numerous international research studies on workplace learning and on learning in life and work transitions. Her previous books include Learning, Work and Social Responsibility (Springer 2009); Improving Workplace Learning (Routledge, 2006); Reconnection: Countering Social Exclusion through Situated Learning (Springer 2004) Working to Learn: Transforming Learning in the Workplace (Routledge 2002) and Learning and Work in the Risk Society (Palgrave 2000). Her international interests are also reflected in her editorship of the journal of international and comparative education COMPARE, between 2004 and 2009.

Bridget N. O′Connor, Ph.D, is Professor of Higher Education and Business Education at New York University. She is the coauthor of Learning at Work (HRD Press, 2007) End-user Information Systems: Implementing Individual and Group Technologies (Prentice Hall, 2002) and Training for Organizations (South-Western, 2002). She is a past president of the Organizational Systems Research Association and was chair of its two national model curriculum projects and editor of its journal, Information Technology, Learning and Performance Journal. She is a Past Chair of the American Educational Research Association′s Special Interest Group, Workplace Learning. She is also a past Chairperson of the New York University Faculty Senators Council. In 2006, she was a Fulbright Senior Specialist at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia.

PART ONE: THEORY
Theories of Work, Place and Learning: New Directions - Len Cairns and Margaret Malloch
Theories of Workplace Learning - Paul Hager
Workplaces and Learning - Knud Illeris
Workplace Learning and the Organization - Alison Fuller and Lorna Unwin
Subjectivity, Self and Personal Agency in Learning Through and for Work - Stephen Billet
Learning in the Workplace: Communities of Practice and Beyond - Len Cairns
Activity Theory and Learning at Work - Yrjo Engestrom
Informal Learning at Work: Conditions, Processes and Logics - Per Erik Ellstrom
Towards a Meta-Theory of Learning and Performance - Darlene Russ-Eft
Knowledge and Workplace Learning - Nicholas M Allix
Rethinking Work-Based Learning: For Education Professionals and Professionals Who Educate - Karen Evans, David Guile and Judy Harris
PART TWO: RESEARCH AND PRACTICE
Researching Workplace Learning: An Overview and Critique - Peter H Sawchuck
How Researching Learning at Work can Lead to Tools for Enhancing Learning - Michael Eraut
Researching Workplace Learning in the United States - Victoria Marsick, Karen Watkins and Bridget N O¿Connor
Researching Workplace Learning in Australia - Nicky Solomon and David Boud
Researching Workplace Learning in Europe - Hans Gruber and Christian Harteis
Initiatives in VET and Workplace Learning: A Korean Perspective - Sang-Duk Choi
Age Management in Organisations in the European Union - Gerhard Naegele and Alan Walker
Work and Learning: From Schools to Workplaces - Richard D Lakes
Competency-based Training and its Impact on Workplace Learning in Australia - Allie Clemans and Peter Rushbrook
Work-related Learning in the United States: Past Practices, Paradigm Shifts, and Policies of Partnerships - John M Dirkx
Workplace Learning in East Africa: A Case Study - Martin Mulder and Judith Gulikers
Policies for the Knowledge Economy: Knowledge Discourses at Play - Tara Fenwick
Virtual Workplace Learning: Promises Met? - Robert G Brookshire, Kara M Lybarger and Lynn B Keane
Seeing Workplace Learning through an Emotional Lens - Brenda R Beatty
Towards a Social Ecology of Adult Learning in and through the Workplace - Karen Evans, Edmund Waite, and Natasha Kersh
PART THREE: ISSUES AND FUTURES
Beyond the Workplace: Learning in the Lifeplace - Margaret Harris and Colin Chisholm
Workplace Learning in the Knowledge Economy: The Development of Vocational Practice and Social Capital - David Guile
Workplace Learning and Higher Education - Carol Costley
Identifying and Classifying Corporate Universities in the United States - Amy Lui-Abel
Partnerships Between and Among Education and the Public and Private Sectors - Bridget N O¿Connor and Doug Lynch
Brave New Workplace: The Impact of Technology on Location and Job Structures - Elizabeth Regan and Chester Delaney
Technology and Knowledge Management - Jingli Cheng, Su Jin Son and Curtis J Bonk
Workplace Learning: Organizations, Ethics and Issues - Craig E Johnson