Re-presenting organisational practices as learning practices
- Publisher:
- Division for Lifelong Learning, University of the Western Cape
- Publication Type:
- Conference Proceeding
- Citation:
- Conference Proceedings, Researching work and learniing, 2007, pp. 738 - 743
- Issue Date:
- 2007-01
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The growth of knowledge work and the construction of the knowledge worker (Drucker 1993) have activated widespread interest in learning in organisations. In this contemporary context, investigations and characterisations of learning (at) work and work as learning, formal versus informal learning and so on, have drawn learning out of its educational, training or institutionally-oriented 'home' to situate it within business practices. New manifestations of learning can be linked to organisational practices such as, for example, coaching and mentoring, and perhaps less obviously to practices of performance management, teamwork, career development, and the like. These organisational practices are creating new meanings and understandings for learning at work and are therefore producing different learning experiences, and workers, from those of the past. We are interested in how and if these organisational practices promote learning while they simultaneously enact organisational functions.
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