Learning through work: Premises, conceptions and practices

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Billett, Stephen
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2024
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Across human history, most occupational capacities have been learnt through work activities and interactions, in ways that are distinct from those within educational institutions. Hence, understanding how learning arises through work requires explanatory premises that are distinct from those in educational institutions. These elaborations also lead to considerations about how this learning can progress in contemporary times. Drawing on anthropological, historical, psychological, and sociological disciplines, considerations of the kinds of curriculum, pedagogic, and personal practices supporting learning through work are advanced. Firstly, models of workplace curriculum are explained and illustrated as pathways along which to progress. Examples of practice pedagogies are advanced as means of enriching experiences in work through securing the kinds of knowledge required for work. Ultimately, the effectiveness of that learning is premised on workers’ personal epistemological practices: of those who participate in, and learn through, the circumstances of practice. In these ways and through these means, learning through work is promoted.

Nella storia dell’umanità, la maggior parte delle capacità professionali è stata appresa in modi diversi da quelli scolastici ovvero attraverso le attività pratiche e le interazioni lavorative. Comprendere come l’apprendimento avvenga attraverso il lavoro richiede premesse esplicative diverse da quelle tipiche delle istituzioni educative. Facendo riferimento alle discipline antropologiche, storiche, psicologiche e sociologiche, vengono discussi i vari tipi di curriculum, le pratiche pedagogiche e personali che supportano l’apprendimento attraverso il lavoro. In primo luogo, vengono illustrati i modelli di curriculum sul posto di lavoro come percorsi di apprendimento progressivo; successivamente, vengono presentati esempi di pedagogie pratiche come mezzi per arricchire le esperienze di lavoro attraverso l’acquisizione delle conoscenze necessarie per il lavoro. L’efficacia dell’apprendimento che avviene attraverso il lavoro si basa sulle pratiche epistemologiche personali dei lavoratori che partecipano e apprendono attraverso le circostanze della pratica.

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IUSVEducation

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Supplemento al n. 23

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Billett, S, Learning through work: Premises, conceptions, and practices, IUSVEducation, 2024, Supplemento al n. 23, pp. 36-52

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