Overview
- A focus on subjectivity
- New conception of learning through work and working life
- Diverse contributions and contexts
- Emerging perspectives
- Leading scholars in the field
Part of the book series: Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Issues, Concerns and Prospects (TVET, volume 6)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Work, Subjectivity and Learning
Book Subtitle: Understanding Learning through Working Life
Editors: Stephen Billett, Tara Fenwick, Margaret Somerville
Series Title: Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Issues, Concerns and Prospects
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-5360-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-5359-7Published: 31 March 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7352-5Published: 18 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-5360-3Published: 03 June 2007
Series ISSN: 1871-3041
Series E-ISSN: 2213-221X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 276
Topics: Professional & Vocational Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Learning & Instruction, Sociology of Education