What is learned through work?A typology of professional learning in the workplace
Anoush Margaryan, Colin Milligan, Allison LittlejohnGlasgow Caledonian University
RQ1. What do professionals learn through work?
RQ2. What are the similarities and differences in what experienced, novice
and midcareer professionals learn?
Conceptual taxonomies
Empirical taxonomies
conceptual knowledge
procedural knowledge
locative knowledge
dispositional knowledge
Anderson, 1982; Gagne, 1965; Schraw, 2006 and others…
codified/reified knowledge
cultural knowledge
personal knowledge
Eraut, 2007
stable knowledge
implicit understanding
episodic knowledge
impressionistic knowledge
skills
regulative knowledge
Bereiter, 2002
Le Maistre and Pare, 2006
mastery of organisational processes
negotiating the political
dealing with the atypical
Boud and Middleton, 2003
identity development
role performance
interpreting the role
Carbert, 2006
Eraut, 2004
Semi-structured interviews (n=29):novices=10
experienced=12midcareer=7
Inductive analysis of emergent categories
Typology as an/a…
Analytical tool to guide other studies
Practical tool to support L&D at work
Application of typology in other types of org/work contexts
Studies with larger samples to identify more robust patterns
Synthesis of existing typologies