A Practice-Based Approach to Understanding Learning on Placement: Identifying Handholds and Knowing How to Go On

Autor/inn/en	Dean, Bonnie Amelia; Sykes, Christopher
Titel	A Practice-Based Approach to Understanding Learning on Placement: Identifying Handholds and Knowing How to Go On
Quelle	In: Studies in Continuing Education, 44 (2022) 3, S.510-525 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0158-037X
DOI	10.1080/0158037X.2021.1911984
Schlagwörter	Work Experience Programs; Workplace Learning; Student Employment; Situated Learning; Ethnography; College Students; Business Administration Education; Job Placement; Internship Programs + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Studentenarbeit; Ethnografie; Collegestudent; Employment service; Employment services; Arbeitsvermittlung; Berufspraktische Ausbildung
Abstract	One of the key challenges in work-integrated learning (WIL) courses is how to account for learning that takes place away from campus, where the work space, daily routines and emergent actions within an organisation shape the possibilities for student learning. What do students do on placement to open the possibilities of working and learning in temporary sites of work? Using a practice-based approach, this paper outlines an ethnographic study of learning on placement. The paper draws on Gherardi's ([2019]. "How to Conduct a Practice-Based Study: Problems and Methods." 2nd ed. Cheltnham: Edward Elgar Publishing) work on learning and knowing in practice to demonstrate how students learn to participate in situated practices to accomplish work tasks. It employs a rock-climbing metaphor to illuminate what students do in order to continue on with work when they encounter something surprising, make an error or have a question. The findings suggest student learning relies on the sociomaterial practices that produce and are produced by each unique workplace situation. The paper shows how learning on placement comprises the identification and use of distinct 'handhold' activities performed through simultaneous processes of knowing, doing and inventing. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01