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Prof. Victoria Marsick's Works

BOOKS BY VICTORIA MARSICK

Rethinking Workplace Learning and Development

Karen E. Watkins and Victoria J. Marsick extend the vision of learning and development to embrace a full range of learning interventions, considering what it means to change the culture of an organization into a learning-rich environment.

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Understanding Action Learning

As much as adult learners can absorb in a classroom, they learn and retain a lot more on the job. Action Learning, or AL, can be based on any of several different schools of thought, and there is much debate as to which is ideal.

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Strategic Organizational Learning: Using System Dynamics for Innovation and Sustained Performance

This book discusses the successes and challenges of leveraging organizational learning in effective strategy development and execution. The authors introduce a framework that helps organizations develop core capabilities to enable them to shift direction rapidly and proactively shape future environments.

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Informal and Incidental Learning in the Workplace

Informal and Incidental Learning in the Workplace is essential reading for researchers and practitioners of human resource development, and also for students of education and adult learning.

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FEATURED ACADEMIC WORK BY VICTORIA MARSICK

Factors that affect the epistemology of group learning: A research-based analysis

This examination of factors that affect group learning is a first step toward developing a pedagogy of group learning, in contrast to individual learning.

Informal Learning and Complex Problem Solving of Radiologic Technologists Transitioning to the Workplace

New Research on Knowledge Management Applications and Lesson Learned 172 yet there are important links between them. Conversation, social interaction and collaboration, relationships, and work-based learning practices form the heart of informal workplace learning.

Your story, our story: the transformative power of life narratives

The stories in this article opened the 2018 International Transformative Learning (TL) Conference. Mezirow founded this conference to grow living theory, but over time, paradoxically, allegiance to his framing of TL can be seen as limiting growth.

Sculpting the Learning Organization: Lessons in the Art and Science of Systemic Change

A unique perspective from adult educators experienced in organizational change. Shows human resource professionals, frontline managers, and others how people learn in the workplace and how to support that learning in programs that foster high employee involvement, in self-directed teams, or by addressing core organizational concerns such as balancing work and home life.

Victoria Marsick marsick@tc.columbia.edu

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Teachers College, Columbia University
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