Mimetic Learning at Work
Learning in the Circumstances of Practice
1st Edition
Published on 1. August 2014
XV, 107 pages
978-3-319-09277-5 (ISBN)
Description
The concept of mimetic learning at work is outlined and elaborated in this text. That elaboration consists of an account of how securing occupational capacities has been primary associated with learning processes and an explanation of those processes. Much, and probably most, of the learning and development across individuals working lives occurs outside of circumstances of direct guidance or instruction. Yet, recent considerations of individuals' epistemologies and developments form anthropology and cognitive science suggest that current explanations about individuals' contributions to learning at and through work are incomplete. So, there is need for an emphasis on individuals' processes of learning, both within and outside of situations of guidance by more experienced workers, needs to be more fully understood, and accepted as being person dependent. Contributions from anthropology, developmental studies, and cognitive neuroscience now augment those from sociocultural theory.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
XV, 107 p.
File size
1,30 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-319-09277-5 (9783319092775)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-09277-5
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
08/2014
Springer
€53.49
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Content
Preface.- Chapter 1 - Mimetic learning in and for work.- Chapter 2- Learning through practice across human history.- Chapter 3- Work-life learning as mimetic.- Chapter 4 - Supporting mimetic learning: Curriculum, pedagogic and personal epistemologies.- Chapter 5 - Implications for practice.- References.- Indexes.
