Decoding working places as learning spaces

1. Decoding workingplaces as learning spaces Petr Novotný Department of Educational Sciences Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University Brno, Czech Rep. www.phil.muni.cz/wupv www.projektcias.cz

2. Let´s start withanexample • WORKPLACE LEARNING

3. … to present the concept of WPL? • The world/economy in change • Learning, education and HR • What's workplace learning • Benefits of WPL • Threats of WPL • Sustainability of WPL

4. First task! • Form a group of three people (as heterogenius as possible) • Discuss your work experience (even if its limited) • Answer the question: What did you learn while working?

5. 3 questions to start with • What is workplace? • What is learning? • What is workplace learning?

7. Workplace learning Learning through the workplace Learning in the workplace Learning for the workplace Workplace learning • Evans et al., 2006

8. Starting point • Notwithstanding the differences in the degree to which the issues of workplace learning have been addressed and the level of its implementation in various countries, it may be said that neither planning, nor course or effects of workplace learning have been described sufficiently enough to enable the use of empirical evidence in formulating well-informed judgements and recommendations for implementation of workplace learning.

9. Cluster of topics • Individual learning process • Organisational learning • Conditions of learning • organisational culture and support for learning within the organisation • economic sector • Human resource development

10. What are we dealing with? • An explanatory scheme • A model of learning • A method of AE/vocational training • A paradigmatical shift

11. A mixed philosofical background of the concept

12. Benefits of workplace learning

13. Workplace learning - benefits • Productivity • Alternative wey of achieving competences • Mobility – both horizontal and vertical • Equalizing opportunities • Self esteem promotion • Adaptation to work • Etc.

14. Try to draft the relation between the two variables

15. Return of investments into human resources (Checchi, 2006)

16. Workplace learning risks • Illegal / illegitimate learning • Clashes of learning cycles • Tendency to advocate NON-participation on education and training

17. Individual learning Clash of learning cycles • Organizational learning • Innovation cycle (Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Ford, 2006)

18. Clashes of interests on workplace learning

19. Another task…

20. Clash of interests of actors (Leuven, 2007)

21. Attempts to use workplace learning potential • Professional learning communities • Organisational learning • Příklad 2:12

22. The last – and most important - task • Suggest a set of measures you would apply to organisation to support positive effects of workplace learning.