ERIC Number: EJ1102554
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Publication Date: 2016-Jul
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Making Space for Consuming Practices
Rooney, Donna; Manidis, Marie; Scheeres, Hermine
Vocations and Learning, v9 n2 p167-184 Jul 2016
This empirically driven paper is about workplace learning with specific focus on the "work" of "consuming practices." By "consuming" we refer to the eating, and the drinking, and (at times) to the smoking that workers, in most organisations, do on a daily basis. Indeed, it is the quotidian nature of consuming, coupled with its absence from workplace learning research that make them noteworthy practices to explore. In using the term "practice" we draw on the recent tranche of practice based theorisations: notably Schatzki (1996, "Organization Studies," 26(3), 465-484, 2005, "Organization Studies," 27(12), 1863-1873, 2006) and Gherardi ("Human Relations," 54(1), 131-139, 2001, 2006, "Learning Organization," 16(5), 352-359, 2009). The paper frames consuming practices as "dispersed" (general) practices and, illustrated through empirical data from multiple projects, we progressively outline how these contribute to the learning of "integrative" (specialized work) practices. Our overall aim is to (re)position consuming practices from prosaic, to having much relevance for research on workplace learning.
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Eating Habits, Drinking, Smoking, Educational Research, Consumer Economics, Consumer Education, Industrial Psychology, Educational Practices, Research Needs
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Language: English
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