ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book focuses on the transfer of learning and how it applies in a number of three different contexts management, in-service teacher development and education. The chapter introduces Boud and Walker model which provides a most appropriate conceptual approach for understanding how one view transfer and for interpreting case studies. Boud and Walker developed a model for promoting learning from experience where the personal foundation of experience and the intent of the experience are important concepts. The basic psychological problem in the transfer of learning pervades the whole psychology of human training. Transfer is concerned with prior learning affecting new learning and it is introduced here not in an individualistic manner, but as a process that needs to be considered in holistic terms with reference to the learner and environment.
