Chief Editor: Henk Roodt
Dr Jan Hendrik Roodt is an Academic Mentor and Assessor at Capable NZ, Otago Polytechnic Ltd |Te Kura Matatini ki Otago.
"Dealing with societal dilemmas switches me on! I am also your friendly local rocket scientist with experience in high technology and business establishment and management, national scenario and strategy development, and simulation modelling for decision making.
Own research: Ethical imperative for designerly ways of thinking to counter to short-term mono-do.
Philosophical position: Transdisciplinarian pragmatist."
Email: henk.roodt@op.ac.nz
Work-based Learning 8
The journal Scope (Work-based Learning) focuses on contemporary research in assessment of prior learning, learning in, for, and about work, and professional practice. It is concerned with critical debate about practice, theory, and history, and their relationships as manifested in the experiences of learners, practitioners, and researchers in work-based learning and professional practice.
Scope (Work-based Learning) 8 has a theme of "Work Reimagined: Reframing Power, Practice and Purpose"
How are we learning in and through our work? We invite reflections on how power, practice, and purpose are shifting in real work settings. How do people learn through disruption, adapt to new expectations, and navigate the ethical tensions of decision-making? What roles are emerging, what remains hidden, and how is meaning made in the flow of work?
We welcome practitioner research, case studies, visual essays, and personal narratives. At its heart, this issue will explore what it means to learn and practise with integrity and purpose in a world of ongoing change.
ISSN 2703-6227 (print) ISSN 2703-6235 (online).
Submissions to henk.roodt@op.ac.nz, rachel.mcnamara@op.ac.nz by 30 April 2026.
Scope: Contemporary Research Topics is a series of peer-reviewed open access journals published annually online by Otago Polytechnic Press, with the print edition co-published with General Editions Studio.