| Dr Andrew Sense . . . completed a new book on ‘Cultivating Lear... Dr Andrew Sense . . . completed a new book on ‘Cultivating Learning Within Projects’ |
| Dr Andrew Sense . . . completed a new book on ‘Cultivating Lear... Dr Andrew Sense . . . completed a new book on ‘Cultivating Learning Within Projects’ |
New book builds on academic’s project management credentials
29 Nov 2007 | Bernie Goldie
A UOW senior lecturer has completed a new book which offers an entirely fresh perspective on how to cultivate learning within a project management environment.
The book, Cultivating Learning Within Projects, by Dr Andrew Sense, from the School of Management and Marketing, provides a framework to facilitate project practitioners’ systematic reflection on their learning activities and to assist them in building a project learning practice.
It also identifies new points of interest for researchers to further investigate the learning phenomenon within projects.
Dr Sense said the book’s key focus was on exposing and examining the social and practical issues and dilemmas involved in cultivating learning within project settings.
Ultimately, the book encourages all readers to consider intra-project learning as primarily a social activity which requires their deliberate commitment, understanding and attention.
Dr Sense said he hopes that both researchers and project practitioners would find the content challenging but also of great value in improving their practices or for undertaking further research in the field.
He also believes that the content of the book may be of strong interest to organisational learning, human resource and knowledge management researchers and professionals, since the topic of learning (and the challenges of effectively engaging it) span so many discipline boundaries.
The publisher, Palgrave Macmillan, describes the book as weaving together diverse theories and empirical data in a way that should appeal to a wide academic and practitioner audience.
This work builds on Dr Sense’s many prior publications in this developing area and reflects his primary research interest of investigating and explaining social phenomenon in the practice world of project management.
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