Facilitating Expansive Learning in a Public Sector Organization

Autor/in	Gustavsson, Maria
Titel	Facilitating Expansive Learning in a Public Sector Organization
Quelle	In: Studies in Continuing Education, 31 (2009) 3, S.245-259 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0158-037X
Schlagwörter	Learning; Work Environment; Public Sector; Municipalities; Case Studies; Learning Theories; Employees; Learning Activities; Group Dynamics; Supervisor Supervisee Relationship; Foreign Countries; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lernen; Arbeitsmilieu; Öffentlicher Sektor; Magistrat; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Learning theory; Lerntheorie; Employee; Arbeitnehmer; Beschäftigter; Lernaktivität; Gruppendynamik; Ausland; Schweden
Abstract	The aim of this article is to discuss how learning opportunities can be organized to promote expansive learning in work practice. The discussion draws on results from a case study examining local development work and conditions that facilitate processes of expansive learning in a work team within a public sector organization in a Swedish municipality. An interactive research design was used. Data were collected over almost four years through individual and group interviews with 12 workers in a work team and their three managers. In addition data were collected through observations of team meetings. The findings demonstrate that work can be organized as a learning environment to facilitate expansive learning even in a resource-limited public sector organization. Furthermore, patterns of expansive learning were evident in the work team's new work activities and new relationships in the organization. The findings also demonstrate the need to support managers in developing a role to facilitate expansive learning. However, the need for and extent of external support for promoting expansive learning in practice vary in different situations and stages during the development work. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10