The multiple reals of workplace learning
The multiple reals of workplace learning are explored in this paper. Drawing on a Foucauldian conceptualisation of power as distributed, relational and productive, networks that work to produce particular objects and subjects as seemingly natural and real are examined. This approach enables differen...
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Linköping University Electronic Press
2014-04-01
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| description | The multiple reals of workplace learning are explored in this paper. Drawing on a Foucauldian conceptualisation of power as distributed, relational and productive, networks that work to produce particular objects and subjects as seemingly natural and real are examined. This approach enables different reals of workplace learning to be traced. Data from a collaborative industry-university research project is used to illustrate the approach, with a focus on the intersecting practices of a group of professional developers and a group of workplace learning researchers. The notion of multiple reals holds promise for research on workplace learning as it moves beyond a view of reality as fixed and singular to a notion of reality as performed in and through a diversity of practices, including the practices of workplace learning researchers. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-43f4bfd0986c4bdb8c805ac88b4643be2022-12-22T03:32:15ZengLinköping University Electronic PressEuropean Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults2000-74262014-04-0151516610.3384/rela.2000-7426.rela9021The multiple reals of workplace learningKerry Harman0Birbeck, University of London, UKThe multiple reals of workplace learning are explored in this paper. Drawing on a Foucauldian conceptualisation of power as distributed, relational and productive, networks that work to produce particular objects and subjects as seemingly natural and real are examined. This approach enables different reals of workplace learning to be traced. Data from a collaborative industry-university research project is used to illustrate the approach, with a focus on the intersecting practices of a group of professional developers and a group of workplace learning researchers. The notion of multiple reals holds promise for research on workplace learning as it moves beyond a view of reality as fixed and singular to a notion of reality as performed in and through a diversity of practices, including the practices of workplace learning researchers.http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/rela.2000-7426.rela9021Ontological politics; workplace learning; power; networksOntological politics; workplace learning; power; networks |
| spellingShingle | Kerry Harman The multiple reals of workplace learning European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults Ontological politics; workplace learning; power; networks Ontological politics; workplace learning; power; networks |
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| topic | Ontological politics; workplace learning; power; networks Ontological politics; workplace learning; power; networks |
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