LEARNING BY DOING IN THE WORKPLACE ENVIRONMENT AS A MANIFESTATION OF PERIPHERAL PARTICIPATION

• Authors: Czubak-Koch Magdalena

Title variants

Uczenie się przez działanie w środowisku pracy przejawem peryferyjnego uczestnictwa

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The authoress discusses various methods of learning in the workplace. Special attention is paid to those aspects of learning in the workplace which are realized through learning by doing. The primary focus is put on identifying similarities in the perception of this form of learning in two disparate theoretical fields, namely the theory of management and enterprise on the one hand and adult education on the other. On the basis of the theory of situational learning the authoress assumes the hypothesis that adults learn through interaction with others in a specific social environment. Learning by doing is strictly related to the concept of 'peripheral participation' which assumes that novices gain new abilities in various dimensions of the social practice. The very process of learning is not limited to the acquisition of technical skills, but above all involves the search for one's identity, the ability to solve issues involving the conflict of interests and introduction of improvements. The researchers observing the process of human resources management and learning organization principles stress the importance of learning by doing, in result of which participants not only discover and correct their mistakes, but additionally are capable of resolving organization-related conflicts and introduce innovations or improvements. Know-how is transmitted in organizations not only by means of training, but above all the training process is carried out in informal conditions by observing more experienced employees. The observations presented, drawn also from theoretical approaches, stress the significance of social interaction in the work environment and indicate at the inextricable link between knowledge and human activity.

Keywords

EN

LEARNING BY DOING; LEARNING IN WORKPLACE; PERIPHERIAL PARTICIPATION

Discipline

• EDUCATION: EDUCATION

• Publisher: Zielona Góra University Press
• Journal: Dyskursy Młodych Andragogów / Adult Education Discourses
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 9
• Pages: 43-49
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Czubak-Koch Magdalena

• M. Czubak-Koch, Dolnoslaska Szkola Wyzsza we Wroclawiu, Instytut Pedagogiki, Zaklad Metodologii Badan Spolecznych i Andragogiki, ul. Strzegomska 55, 53-611 Wroclaw, Poland

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Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08PLAAAA04919331