Workplace ‘learning’ and adult education: Messy objects, blurry maps and making difference

dc.creator	Tara Fenwick
dc.date	2010-09-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:08:18Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:08:18Z
dc.identifier	2000-7426
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/f0374e0149644697899317ccd8753755
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/11898
dc.description	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.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Linköping University Electronic Press
dc.relation	http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/rela.2000-7426.rela0006
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/2000-7426
dc.rights	CC BY-NC
dc.source	European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, Vol 1, Iss 1-2, Pp 79-95 (2010)
dc.subject	Workplace
dc.subject	learning theory
dc.subject	multiple ontologies
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Workplace ‘learning’ and adult education: Messy objects, blurry maps and making difference
dc.type	article