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Title Work, subjectivity and learning : understanding learning through working life / edited by Stephen Billett, Tara Fenwick, and Margaret Somerville
Published Dordrecht, the Netherlands : Springer, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 275 pages)
Series UNESCO-UNEVOC book series ; v. 6
UNESCO-UNEVOC book series ; v. 6.
Contents Work, subjectivity and learning / Stephen Billett -- Escaping/becoming subjects : learning to work the boundaries in boundaryless work / Tara Fenwick -- Subjected bodies, or embodied subjects : subjectivity and learning safety at work / Margaret Somerville -- Learning and experience / Henning Salling Olesen -- Dressing corporate subjectivities : learning what to wear to the bank / Kathryn Church with Catherine Frazee, Teresa (Tracy) Luciani, Melanie Panitch and Patricia Seeley -- The moving subject : shifting work(ers) across and beyond organisational boundaries / Hermine Scheeres and Nicky Solomon -- Exploring construction of gendered identities at work / Lena Abrahamsson -- Epistemological beliefs and their impact on work, subjectivity and learning / Christian Harteis, Hans Gruber, and Franz Lehner -- Personal agency and epistemology at work / Stephen Billett and Ray Smith -- Developing subjective identities through collective participation / Anneli Eteläpelto and Jaana Saarinen -- Action at a distance: governmentality, subjectivity and workplace learning / Richard Edwards and Katherin Nicoll -- Integrating life, work and identity : farm women transforming 'self' through personal struggle and conflict / Jan Allan -- Work, subjectivity, and learning in the diaspora : immigrant women of colour in white academe / Mary V. Alfred -- Workers, subjectivity and decent work / Catherine Casey -- Work, subjectivity and learning : prospects and issues / Tara Fenwick and Margaret Somerville
Summary In recent year, efforts to understand learning for and throughout working life have moved away from a focus on workplace training to concerns about learning as a component and outcome of engaging in work and work-related activities and interactions. This shift acknowledges a broader set of workplace factors that shape workers' learning and development. Yet equally, it acknowledges that this learning through engagement is also necessarily shaped by the diverse ways that individuals elect to engage or participate in workplace activities. Central here is the issue of individuals' subjectivity and how this is shaped by but shapes engagement in work and, therefore, what learning flows from their participation. It is in considering the relations among subjectivity, learning and work that it is possible to advance both the conceptual and procedural bases for understanding learning through and for working life. Moreover, the focus on relations among subjectivity, work and learning represents a point of convergence for diverse disciplinary traditions and practices that are provided by the book's contributors. In this way, the contributions represent something of the emerging perspectives that are elaborating the complex relations among subjectivity, work and learning, and circumstances in which they are played out
Analysis onderwijs
education
samenleving
society
onderwijsbeleid
educational policy
beroepsopleiding
vocational training
beroepsopleiding (hoger)
professional education
Education (General)
Onderwijs (algemeen)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes English
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Subject Work -- Social aspects
Organizational change.
Employees -- Training of.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Training.
Organizational change.
Employees -- Training of.
Work -- Social aspects.
Sciences sociales.
Sciences humaines.
Employees -- Training of
Organizational change
Work -- Social aspects
Form Electronic book
Author Billett, Stephen., editor
Fenwick, Tara J., editor
Somerville, Margaret., editor
ISBN 9781402053603
1402053606
1402053592
9781402053597