Aprendizaje mimetico mediante actividades e interacciones cotidianas en el trabajo
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Billett, Stephen
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2016
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This paper provides an elaboration of mimetic learning as a means to reconsider the potential of workers’ learning through every work activities and interactions. It proposes that the majority of learning across working lives likely occurs outside of being mentored, taught or guided through training programs by others (e.g. teachers or experienced co-workers etc) and their pre-determined intentions for what is to be learnt. Yet, many, and perhaps most, explanatory and procedural accounts emphasise these kinds of intentional interventions by others (e.g. educational and training programs), more than workers’ actions as learners ...
View more >This paper provides an elaboration of mimetic learning as a means to reconsider the potential of workers’ learning through every work activities and interactions. It proposes that the majority of learning across working lives likely occurs outside of being mentored, taught or guided through training programs by others (e.g. teachers or experienced co-workers etc) and their pre-determined intentions for what is to be learnt. Yet, many, and perhaps most, explanatory and procedural accounts emphasise these kinds of intentional interventions by others (e.g. educational and training programs), more than workers’ actions as learners in and through their everyday work activities and interactions. Therefore, it seems important for these everyday learning processes to be understood more fully. Here, an account is advanced here of how workers’ learning through everyday work activities and interactions, both remote from and when engaged with others, arises through mimetic processes (i.e. observation, imitation and action). This elaboration sets out some premises that can comprise the foundations for an account of workers mimetic learning in the circumstances of work, in ways that is of interest to those who seeks to promote learning through work and across lengthening working lives.
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View more >This paper provides an elaboration of mimetic learning as a means to reconsider the potential of workers’ learning through every work activities and interactions. It proposes that the majority of learning across working lives likely occurs outside of being mentored, taught or guided through training programs by others (e.g. teachers or experienced co-workers etc) and their pre-determined intentions for what is to be learnt. Yet, many, and perhaps most, explanatory and procedural accounts emphasise these kinds of intentional interventions by others (e.g. educational and training programs), more than workers’ actions as learners in and through their everyday work activities and interactions. Therefore, it seems important for these everyday learning processes to be understood more fully. Here, an account is advanced here of how workers’ learning through everyday work activities and interactions, both remote from and when engaged with others, arises through mimetic processes (i.e. observation, imitation and action). This elaboration sets out some premises that can comprise the foundations for an account of workers mimetic learning in the circumstances of work, in ways that is of interest to those who seeks to promote learning through work and across lengthening working lives.
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Book Title
Aprendizaje situado y aprendizaje conectado: Implicaciones para el trabajo
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Vocational Education and Training Curriculum and Pedagogy