Work, Subjectivity and Learning Understanding Learning through Working Life /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Billett, Stephen (Editor), Fenwick, Tara (Editor), Somerville, Margaret (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Series: Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Issues, Concerns and Prospects ; 6
• Subjects: Education.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Educational sociology.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Professional & Vocational Education.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Learning & Instruction.; Sociology of Education.

In recent year, efforts to understand learning for and throughout working life have moved away from a focus on workplace training to concerns about learning as a component and outcome of engaging in work and work-related activities and interactions. This shift acknowledges a broader set of workplace...

Table of Contents:

• Work, Subjectivity and Learning
• Escaping/Becoming Subjects: Learning to Work the Boundaries in Boundaryless Work
• Subjected Bodies, or Embodied Subjects: Subjectivity and Learning Safety at Work
• Learning and Experience
• Dressing Corporate Subjectivities: Learning What to Wear to the Bank
• The Moving Subject: Shifting Work(ers) Across and Beyond Organisational Boundaries
• Exploring Construction of Gendered Identities at Work
• Epistemological Beliefs and Their Impact on Work, Subjectivity and Learning
• Personal Agency and Epistemology at Work
• Developing Subjective Identities Through Collective Participation
• Action at a Distance: Governmentality, Subjectivity and Workplace Learning
• Integrating Life, Work and Identity: Farm Women Transforming ‘Self’ through Personal Struggle and Conflict
• Work, Subjectivity, and Learning in the Diaspora: Immigrant Women of Colour in White Academe
• Workers, Subjectivity and Decent Work
• Work, Subjectivity and Learning: Prospects and Issues.