Human Fallibility The Ambiguity of Errors for Work and Learning /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bauer, Johannes (Editor), Harteis, Christian (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2012.
• Series: Professional and Practice-based Learning, 6
• Subjects: Education.; Industrial psychology.; Professional & Vocational Education.; Learning & Instruction.; Industrial, Organisational and Economic Psychology.

A curious ambiguity surrounds errors in professional working contexts: they must be avoided in case they lead to adverse (and potentially disastrous) results, yet they also hold the key to improving our knowledge and procedures. In a further irony, it seems that a prerequisite for circumventing erro...