Learning in and Through Work: Positioning the Individual

Understanding the purposes, processes and outcomes of learning in through work – workplace necessitates positioning individuals centrally those deliberations. The purposes engaging in, for are central to developing capacity participate adult working life, form a specific occupational identity, have bases realise maintain economic independence ongoing employment sustain that ability across life. This includes advancements within an occupation field as means transfer other occupations interests circumstances change. process is shaped by experiences afforded social settings such workplaces educational institutions, but ultimately mediated individuals. It construction personal domains knowledge, including understanding variations requirements capacities adapt what know, can do value performance. These knowledge not some version textbook or uniformly constructed. Instead, they developed personally-specific ways arise from particular sets which how construe, construct reconcile based on previous development. Hence, beyond institutions (e.g. workplaces), ultimately, it generate enact (i.e. learning). In advancing case meaning makers, producers innovators position these being abstracted cultural world. On contrary, embedded world, inherently interdependent with experience socially culturally, represent suggested, required enacted concepts advanced this chapter elaborate role individual referred learning.