"Cigars on the Flight-Deck": New Lecturers' Participatory Learning within Workplace Communities of Practice

Autor/in	Warhurst, Russell P.
Titel	"Cigars on the Flight-Deck": New Lecturers' Participatory Learning within Workplace Communities of Practice
Quelle	In: Studies in Higher Education, 33 (2008) 4, S.453-467 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0307-5079
Schlagwörter	Learning Theories; Socialization; Learning Processes; Higher Education; Professional Development; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Learning theory; Lerntheorie; Socialisation; Sozialisation; Learning process; Lernprozess; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Ausland; Großbritannien
Abstract	Formal teaching development for new lecturers has become commonplace in many higher education systems over the past decade, and research into this practice has burgeoned. However, by contrast to broader professional development practice and research, lecturer development work retains a traditional individual focus. This article, therefore, focuses on examining the social learning of new lecturers. The new lecturers whose learning is examined worked in a highly international, research-intensive university. Through the lens of situated learning theory, affordances for and constraints on social learning in academic workplaces are brought to the fore. It is shown that new lecturers were enabled to "appropriate" established workplace practices through various incidental participatory learning mechanisms. However, it is revealed that such mechanisms could also serve to both limit and distort learning. The article concludes by discussing the interplay of social and individual learning processes, and draws out certain implications for development practice. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10