Consuming metaphors: Stimulating questions for everyday learning

Rooney, D; Solomon, N

Consuming metaphors: Stimulating questions for everyday learning

Rooney, D

Solomon, N

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Studies in the Education of Adults, 2006, 38 (1), pp. 64 - 73
Issue Date:: 2006-03-01

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dc.contributor.author	Rooney, D https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7668-0936	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Solomon, N https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7223-0428	en_US
dc.date.issued	2006-03-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Studies in the Education of Adults, 2006, 38 (1), pp. 64 - 73	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0266-0830	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/6319
dc.description.abstract	© 2006, © 2006 Taylor and Francis Group, LLC. This paper about consumption as a metaphor for learning follows from some ideas about learning and space that emerged from a research project concerned with everyday learning at work. These learning/work spaces have drawn our attention to the significant consumption (eating and drinking) occurring within them. We suggest that linking everyday learning to the ordinariness of consuming opens up some interesting questions about everyday learning in the workplace. Furthermore, we believe this metaphor can be put to work from a range of theoretical perspectives, and in this paper we begin to explore how these perspectives might be mobilised in order to produce new understandings. In all, this paper offers a playful hors d'oeuvre, to stimulate further selection from a veritable smorgasbord, and one to satisfy a range of possible theoretical tastes.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Studies in the Education of Adults	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1080/02660830.2006.11661525	en_US
dc.title	Consuming metaphors: Stimulating questions for everyday learning	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	1	en_US
utslib.citation.volume	38	en_US
utslib.for	1301 Education Systems	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/FASS Faculty Administration
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pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US
pubs.volume	38	en_US

Abstract:

© 2006, © 2006 Taylor and Francis Group, LLC. This paper about consumption as a metaphor for learning follows from some ideas about learning and space that emerged from a research project concerned with everyday learning at work. These learning/work spaces have drawn our attention to the significant consumption (eating and drinking) occurring within them. We suggest that linking everyday learning to the ordinariness of consuming opens up some interesting questions about everyday learning in the workplace. Furthermore, we believe this metaphor can be put to work from a range of theoretical perspectives, and in this paper we begin to explore how these perspectives might be mobilised in order to produce new understandings. In all, this paper offers a playful hors d'oeuvre, to stimulate further selection from a veritable smorgasbord, and one to satisfy a range of possible theoretical tastes.

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