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  • Personal epistemologies and older workers

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    Billett, S
    Woerkom, MV
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    Billett, Stephen R.
    Year published
    2008
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    This paper evaluates the need and prospects for older workers to develop and deploy effective and critical personal epistemologies in order to maintain workplace competence, successfully negotiate work transitions and secure ontological security in their working life. A personal epistemology is an approach to and a practice of learning directed by individuals, often for purposes that are important for them. This seems particularly important for older workers as both the institutional and brute facts (Searle 1995) that comprise workplace affordances and maturation factors, respectively, may not be supportive of their attempts ...
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    This paper evaluates the need and prospects for older workers to develop and deploy effective and critical personal epistemologies in order to maintain workplace competence, successfully negotiate work transitions and secure ontological security in their working life. A personal epistemology is an approach to and a practice of learning directed by individuals, often for purposes that are important for them. This seems particularly important for older workers as both the institutional and brute facts (Searle 1995) that comprise workplace affordances and maturation factors, respectively, may not be supportive of their attempts to maintain competence in their working lives. Instead, as both individual agents and parts of collective actions, the exercise of personal epistemologies premised on critical reflection stands as a means for older workers to understand and respond to the changing requirements of work life. These propositions are introduced and elaborated using a study of older workers' capacities to be critically reflective of their practice and enact workplace change.
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    Journal Title
    International Journal of Lifelong Education
    Volume
    27
    Issue
    3
    Publisher URI
    http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/02601370.asp
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/02601370802047833
    Copyright Statement
    © 2008 Routledge. This is an electronic version of an article published in International Journal of Lifelong Education, Volume 27, Issue 3, pages 333-348. International Journal of Lifelong Education is available online at: http://www.informaworld.com with the open URL of your article.
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    Education systems
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/21345
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