Introduction: Strange Matters

  • Christian Beighton
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Abstract

Expansive Learning in Professional Contexts: a Materialist Perspective critically discusses developments in professional learning with emphasis on the relevance of pedagogies of expansive learning. It draws on recent empirical and theoretical work developed in the context of Police Firearms training and makes an original contribution to the current debate across a range of professional learning settings.

Its materialist perspective studies the culture and practices of this particular area in depth to bring profound features of expansive learning and organizational research (professional ethics, situated training models, professional responsibility, and transitions) into relief.

Keywords

Expansive learning Materialism Policing Ethics 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Christian Beighton
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  1. 1.Canterbury Christ Church UniversityCanterburyUK

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