Les pratiques participatives sur le lieu de travail : Apprentissage et remaniement de pratiques culturelles

Abstract

This discusses learning through work and throughout working life as workplace participatory practices (Billett 2002). These practices comprise a relational duality between what the workplace affords individuals and how they engage with what is afforded them. It is relational, because the social suggestion exercised through workplace activities is of greater or lesser intensity and comprehensiveness. Even if individuals wanted to faithfully reproduce the practices suggested through the workplace, they are still required to construe their intent and process. Yet their construal and construction of these is mediated by their understanding and capacities. Indeed, rather than uncritically and faithfully reproducing what they encounter through their workplace experiences, individuals engage in an active process of construing and constructing meaning that has a cognitive legacy (i.e. learning). Moreover, beyond individuals' learning, this active process of construal and construction also constitutes the active remaking of the cultural practices that comprises their paid work. So both individuals' vocational practice and their work practices