A practice-based approach to understanding learning on placement

Identifying handholds and knowing how to go on

Datos Bibliográficos

ID21458784
AutoresBonnie Amelia Dean (0000-0002-2057-9529, Learning, Teaching & Curriculum, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia, autor de correspondencia), Christopher Sykes (0000-0002-1650-4196, University of Wollongong)
Año2022
Volumen44
Número3
Páginas510-525
Fecha de publicación2022-09-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaStudies in Continuing Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0158-037X • E-ISSN: 1470-126X
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0158037x.2021.1911984
OpenAlexW3152631042
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas23

One of the key challenges in work-integrated learning (WIL) courses is how to account for learning that takes place away from campus, where the work space, daily routines and emergent actions within an organisation shape the possibilities for student learning. What do students do on placement to open the possibilities of working and learning in temporary sites of work? Using a practice-based approach, this paper outlines an ethnographic study of learning on placement. The paper draws on Gherardi’s ([2019]. How to Conduct a Practice-Based Study: Problems and Methods. 2nd ed. Cheltnham: Edward Elgar Publishing) work on learning and knowing in practice to demonstrate how students learn to participate in situated practices to accomplish work tasks. It employs a rock-climbing metaphor to illuminate what students do in order to continue on with work when they encounter something surprising, make an error or have a question. The findings suggest student learning relies on the sociomaterial practices that produce and are produced by each unique workplace situation. The paper shows how learning on placement comprises the identification and use of distinct ‘handhold’ activities performed through simultaneous processes of knowing, doing and inventing

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