Productive Reflection At Work: Learning For Changing Organizations

by Boud; David

• ISBN13: 9780415355827
• ISBN10: 0415355826
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-01-13
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Thinking about learning at work is rapidly evolving.Productive Reflection and Learning at Workidentifies the importance of reflection at work, tracing it from an emphasis on training, through a focus on how organizations learn, to a concern with the necessary learning that needs to occur for organizations and work groups to operate effectively today. This book articulates a new, collective, focus on what it terms productive reflection. That is reflection that serves the needs of all those involved. A combination of theory and practice allows the importance of productivity to be addressed whilst satisfying the lived experience of productive work life. It points the way to a new focus on learning at work that critically takes account of the context of production while also meeting the desire of participants to have fulfilling and engaging experiences in the workplace.

Table of Contents

List of figures	viii
List of tables	ix
Notes on contributors	x
Acknowledgements	xiii
PART I Introduction	1	(26)
Setting the scene for productive reflection	3	(8)
David Boud
Peter Cressey
Peter Docherty
The emergence of productive reflection	11	(16)
Peter Cressey
David Boud
Peter Docherty
PART II Underpinning themes and ideas	27	(40)
Reflection: taking it beyond the individual	29	(14)
Steen Hoyrup
Bente Elkjaer
The meaning and role of reflection in informal learning at work	43	(11)
Per-Erik Ellstrom
Collective reflection and learning: from formal to reflective participation	54	(13)
Peter Cressey
PART III Productive reflection: differing contexts and practices	67	(64)
Disciplined reflection or communities of practice?	69	(11)
Andrew Schenkel
The limits of reflexive design in a secrecy-based organization	80	(13)
Michael Stebbins
Tali Freed
A. B. `Rami' Shani
Kenneth H. Doerr
Collective reflection under ambiguity	93	(13)
Monica Bjerlov
Peter Docherty
Reflection during a crisis turnaround: management use of learning mechanisms	106	(14)
Michael Stebbins
A. B. `Rami' Shani
Peter Docherty
Interactive critical reflection as intercultural competence	120	(11)
Victor J. Friedman
Ariane Berthoin Antal
PART IV Challenges and complexities	131	(76)
Collective reflection for excellence in work organizations: an ethical `community of practice' perspective on reflection	133	(13)
Barry Nyhan
Reflecting on workplace change: a trade union perspective	146	(12)
Monica Breidensjo
Tony Huzzard
Creating the space for reflection at work	158	(12)
David Boud
Discursive practices at work: constituting the reflective learner	170	(11)
Claus Elmholdt
Svend Brinkmann
Feminist challenges to mainstream leadership through collective reflection and narrative	181	(12)
Silvia Gherardi
Barbara Poggio
Lessons and issues for practice and development	193	(14)
Peter Docherty
David Boud
Peter Cressey
Index	207