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Record Nr.

UNINA9910449675803321

Titolo

The workplace as a learning environment [[electronic resource] /] / Guest editor David Moore

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bradford, England, : Emerald Group Publishing, c2004

ISBN

1-280-51529-5

9786610515295

1-84544-388-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (61 p.)

Collana

The journal of workplace learning ; ; v. 16, no. 6

Altri autori (Persone)

MooreDavid

Disciplina

331.133

Soggetti

Employees - Training of

Organizational behavior

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; Abstracts; Editorial; Guest editorial; Workplace participatory practices; Curriculum at work; The workplace learning cycle; Communities of domination? Reconceptualising organisational learning and power; Internet editorial

Sommario/riassunto

Arguing against a concept of learning as only a formal process occurring in explicitly educational settings like schools, the paper proposes a conception of the workplace as a learning environment focusing on the interaction between the affordances and constraints of the social setting, on the one hand, and the agency and biography of the individual participant, on the other. Workplaces impose certain expectations and norms in the interest of their own continuity and survival, and in the interest of certain participants; but learners also choose to act in certain ways dependent on their own