Co-Participation at Work: Learning through Work and throughout Working Lives

Autor/in	Billett, Stephen
Titel	Co-Participation at Work: Learning through Work and throughout Working Lives
Quelle	In: Studies in the Education of Adults, 36 (2004) 2, S.190-205 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0266-0830
Schlagwörter	Work Environment; Social Science Research; Social Development; Work Attitudes; Cognitive Development; Individual Development; Cohort Analysis; Organizational Culture; Organizational Development; Organizational Climate; Experiential Learning + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Arbeitsmilieu; Social scientific research; Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung; Soziale Entwicklung; Work attitude; Arbeitshaltung; Kognitive Entwicklung; Individuelle Entwicklung; Kohortenanalyse; Unternehmenskultur; Organisationsentwicklung; Organisationsklima; Experiental learning; Erfahrungsorientiertes Lernen
Abstract	This paper conceptualises a basis for understanding learning in workplaces. This comprises a duality between how access to workplace activities and guidance is afforded, on the one hand, and how workers elect to engage with what is afforded to them, on the other. This reciprocal basis for thinking, acting and learning is referred to as co-participation at work. The key contributions that workplaces make to workers' learning comprise learners' access to workplace activities and guidance. Yet workplaces are contested environments, where participation and learning are shaped by the affordances extended to workers or cohorts of workers that are subject to workplace norms and practices. Consequently, access to these contributions is not equally afforded. How they are distributed and accessed shapes how the workplace invites individuals to participate in and learn from these experiences. Yet, individuals also actively participate in managing their learning. They construe the invitational qualities of what is afforded them and elect to engage with work activities and also shape what they learn. Engagement in work and what is co-constructed through work is negotiated between the evolving social practice of the workplace and individuals' ongoing development founded in their ontogeneses. (Contains 2 figures.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10