Learning, Working and Living Mapping the Terrain of Working Life Learning

by Antonacopoulou, Elena; Jarvis, Peter; Andersen, Vibeke; Høerup, Steen; Elkjaer, Bente

• ISBN13: 9781403947673
• ISBN10: 1403947678
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-01-13
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Debate about organization and workplace learning has now moved on from viewing learning as a way of fostering control. This book suggests that by focusing on learning as a way of living, the needs of production can be reconciled with the need for employees to have satisfying engagement with their work.

Author Biography

Elena Antonacopoulou is Professor Organisational Behaviour at the University of Liverpool Management School and a Fellow of the Advanced Institute of Management Research. Peter Jarvis is Professor of Continuing Education at the University of Surrey and Honorary Adjunct Professor in Adult Education at the University of Georgia. Vibeke Andersen is Associate Professor in the Department of Education Studies at the University of Roskilde, Denmark. Bente Elkjaer is Professor and Head of the Doctoral School of Organisational Learning at the Danish University of Education. Steen Hoerup is Associate Professor at the Danish University of Education.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	x
List of Contributors	xi
Foreword	xiii
References	xvi
1. Learning, Working and Living: An Introduction	1	(14)
Elena P. Antonacopoulou
Rationale of the book	1	(1)
Organization of the book	2	(1)
Learning as a way of living	3	(2)
Learning and working	5	(2)
Learning and knowing in work organizations	7	(8)
Part I: Learning as a Way of Living
2. Organizational Learning and Workplace Learning — Similarities and Differences	15	(18)
Bente Elkjaer and Bjarne Wahlgren
Organizational learning	16	(6)
Workplace learning	22	(6)
Similarities and differences between OL and WPL	28	(1)
References	29	(4)
3. Two Logics of Learning	33	(17)
Per-Erik Ellström
Learning in organizations: reproduction versus development	34	(1)
Two logics of work and learning	35	(3)
The two logics presuppose different conditions of learning	38	(5)
Balancing the logics of performance and development	43	(3)
Concluding remarks	46	(1)
References	46	(4)
4. Innovative Learning is Not Enough	50	(19)
Claus Elmholdt
Situating the comparative study theoretically	52	(2)
Situating the comparative study methodologically	54	(1)
Workplace learning at yard	55	(2)
Workplace learning at Web A/S	57	(2)
Workplace learning at A-Soft	59	(3)
Discussion	62	(1)
Summary and conclusion	63	(1)
References	64	(5)
Part II: Learning and Working
5. Knowledge, Progression and the Understanding of Workplace Learning	69	(16)
Erik Laursen
The concept of learning and modern work organizations	70	(4)
Organizational learning viewed from three concepts of progression	74	(4)
Learning situations - the interactional aspect of OL	78	(3)
Learning as a perspective: what are we doing?	81	(1)
References	82	(2)
Notes	84	(1)
6. Reflection in Learning at Work	85	(17)
Steen Høyrup
Conceptual premises	85	(3)
The root of reflection: the thinking of John Dewey	88	(1)
Contributions from adult education	89	(4)
The domain of problem solving	93	(5)
Critical reflection	98	(1)
Conclusions	99	(1)
References	100	(2)
7. How to 'Bridge the Gap' - Experiences in Connecting the Educational and Work System	102	(17)
Lennart Svensson and Hanne Randle
Obstacles to workplace learning - two different systems that do not interact	102	(4)
The complementarity of formal and informal learning	106	(3)
A flexible model for workplace learning	109	(4)
What strategy can be used?	113	(1)
Supportive structures are needed	114	(1)
Some final reflections	115	(1)
References	116	(2)
Notes	118	(1)
8. The Workplace - a Landscape of Learning	119	(20)
Klaus Nielsen and Steinar Kvale
The landscape of learning at work	122	(10)
The personal learning horizon	132	(2)
Conclusion	134	(1)
References	134	(1)
Note	135	(4)
Part III: Learning and Knowing in Work Organizations
9. Configuring Places for Learning – Participatory Development of Learning Practices at Work	139	(15)
Thomas Binder, Erling Björgvinsson and Per-Anders Hillgren
Machine setters on video	141	(3)
Self-produced video and everyday learning among intensive care nurses	144	(3)
Watching a colleague on video	147	(3)
Coming full circle	150	(1)
References	151	(3)
10. Learning in and for Work, and the Joint Construction of Mediational Artefacts: An Activity Theoretical View	154	(16)
Reijo Miettinen and Jaakko Virkkunen
How the results of learning are preserved, accumulated, and transmitted	154	(2)
Joint creation of artefacts as a key to collective learning at work	156	(2)
The developmental contradictions of the labour-protection inspectors' work in the 1980's	158	(2)
Creating new instruments for inspection work within the Uusimaa Labour Protection District	160	(5)
Conclusions	165	(2)
References	167	(2)
Note	169	(1)
11. The Learning Processes in the Work Organization: From Theory to Design	170	(18)
Annikki Jarvinen and Esa Poikela
The case organization	171	(4)
Experience as a source of learning at work	175	(1)
Learning contexts in a work organization	176	(5)
Learning processes in the work organization	181	(5)
Conclusion	186	(1)
References	186	(2)
12. Conditions for Learning During a Period of Change Dilemmas and Disturbances on the Production Floor	188	(14)
Gun-Britt Wärvik and Per-Olof Thång
Analytical concepts	189	(3)
Gear	192	(1)
How to understand 'something different'	193	(1)
The production-planning meeting	193	(5)
Conclusions	198	(2)
References	200	(2)
13. A Context of Learning in the Workplace	202	(17)
Hanne Dauer Keller
The concept of competence	203	(1)
Sense making in social work	204	(2)
Development of practical knowledge	206	(1)
Learning through being part of a community of practice	207	(1)
Learning as adaptation and renewal	208	(2)
A study of the development of social workers' competences	210	(2)
Some dilemmas of social work	212	(1)
The results	213	(2)
Developments of social practice	215	(1)
Conclusion	216	(1)
References	217	(2)
14. Non-learning in Multicultural Work Communities	219	(15)
Marit Rismark and Jorun M. Stenøien
Theoretical framework	220	(2)
Object of study	222	(1)
Interviewing informants and analysing the material	223	(1)
Filling the job at the nursing home ward	224	(6)
Implications for workplace learning	230	(2)
References	232	(2)
15. Working Life Learning: Learning-in-Practise	234	(21)
Elena P. Antonacopoulou
Introduction	234	(1)
Learning, living, working as change routines	235	(4)
Learning as a complex social system	239	(1)
Inter-connectivity	240	(1)
Diversity	241	(1)
Self-organization/emergence	241	(2)
Politics and power	243	(1)
Learning-in-practise	244	(3)
Conclusions	247	(1)
Acknowledgements	248	(1)
References	249	(5)
Note	254	(1)
Index	255