Learning Throughout Working Life: Interdependencies at work

Interdependencies at work : reflection , performance , dialogue and reward

This paper contributes to the ongoing debate about the relationship between the social and the individual as it is enacted in personal learning and the remaking of cultural practices through work. It discusses progress in a two-year study of the work, working lives and learning of twelve workers. They comprise four groups of three workers in an emergency service, gymnasium, restaurant and IT he...

Learning through work: Exploring instances of relational interdependencies

This paper provides an account of the inter-psychological processes that constitute learning through work. It does this by drawing on deliberations about the relative contributions of the immediate social world (i.e., workplace setting) that individuals encounter and the personal premises for individuals’ learning. This account is realised through analyses of workers’ experiences of working and...

Learning at trade vocational school and learning at work: boundary crossing in apprentices' everyday life

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Guided learning at work

Awe (animated Work Environment): Ambient Intelligence in Working Life

This paper introduces the “Animated Work Environment” [AWE], an articulated, programmable, interior environment and chassis, embedded with integrated digital technologies that facilitate productivity, connectedness and innovation across fluid assemblages of people working in a wide variety of locations and settings. Featuring a continuous, morphing surface controlled by a user-friendly interfac...