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Organizational education, starting with John Dewey’s pragmatism, focuses on learners in their workplace and organization. Learning is ontological and is based on the learner as being someone, a worker or a manager. Thus, it should not only be understood as a matter of acquiring skills and knowledge. This requires further that the context of work, the workplace and the organization, is also included in the concept of organizational education, which in turn involves the consideration of the different positions of power in enterprises.
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Elkjaer, B. (2018). Pragmatist Foundations for Organizational Education. In: Göhlich, M., Schröer, A., Weber, S. (eds) Handbuch Organisationspädagogik. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-07746-4_24-2
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