Workplace 'learning' and adult education
Messy objects, blurry maps and making difference
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5791010 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tara Fenwick (University of Stirling, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 79-95 |
| Publication date | 2010-09-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2000-7426 • E-ISSN: 2000-7426 |
| Publisher | Linköping University Electronic Press (PUBLISHER • SE) |
| DOI | 10.3384/rela.2000-7426.rela0006 |
| OpenAlex | W2019284298 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 60 |
This article reviews diverse representations of learning evident among published accounts of workplace learning across fields such as adult education, human resource development, management and organisation studies. The discussion critically addresses the question of how to mediate a multiplicity of definitional, ideological and purposive orientations. The argument here is that the issue is not perspectival, but ontological. The critical problem lies in mistaking learning as a single object when in fact it is enacted as multiple objects, as very different things in different logics of study and practice. Particularly in the contested arena of work as a site of economic conflict and production, learning needs to be appreciated as a messy object, existing in different states, or perhaps a series of different objects that are patched together through some manufactured linkages
Argument (complex analysis · Learning object · Higher Education and Employability · Higher Education Learning Practices · Innovative Education and Learning Practices
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Actor-Network Theory in Education
Knowledge-Sharing Dilemmas
The Construction of `Communities of Practice' in the Management of Innovation
Introduction
Science and an African Logic
Networks and Contexts of Reform
Practice-Based Theorizing on Learning and Knowing in Organizations
STS in Management Education
Communities of Practice and Social Learning Systems
Foucault's Challenge
Culture in global knowledge societies
Critiquing workplace learning discourses
Co-participation at work
Theorising learning in life history
Organizational learning with a pragmatic slant
Putting words in their mouths
Transnational Discourses of Knowledge and Learning in Professional Work
Assembling the ‘Accomplished’ Teacher
Human-Machine Reconfigurations
Ontology in Organization and Management Studies
Thinking Through Things
The Body Multiple
Ontological Politics. A Word and Some Questions
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,27 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2024 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |