Expansive learning across workplace boundaries |
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| Authors: | Hannele Kerosuo Hanna Toiviainen |
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| Institution: | Center for Research on Activity, Development and Learning, University of Helsinki, Finland |
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| Abstract: | The article analyses a collaborative effort of learning across workplace boundaries in a regional learning network of South Savo, Finland. The focus is on the Forum of In-house Development in the network. Our objective is to highlight a dialectical approach to boundaries that draws from the ideas of cultural-historical activity theory. Expansive transformation may be explored through the expansion of socio-spatial and instrumental-developmental boundaries. This is shown through four transitional episodes that reveal the expansion of the object of learning. We argue that crossing the socio-spatial boundary of a workplace is not a sufficient condition, but that new meditational means created at the instrumental-developmental boundary are needed to expand workplace learning and development in challenging and complex regional contexts. |
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| Keywords: | Workplace learning Social-spatial boundary Instrumental-developmental boundary Learning network Cultural-historical activity theory |
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