The workplace as a learning environment / Guest editor David Moore.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moore, David.

Series:

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Employees--Training of.

Employees.

Organizational behavior.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (61 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bradford, England : Emerald Group Publishing, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-280-51529-5

9786610515295

1-84544-388-8

OCLC:

133162020