کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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357099 | 1435443 | 2011 | 7 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
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.
► Expansions of objects and boundaries are mutually constitutive in learning networks.
► Expansion of social-spatial boundaries enhances workplace learning across levels.
► Expansive learning emerges through the creation of new meditational means.
► Expansion of instrumental-developmental boundaries involves new meditational means.
Journal: International Journal of Educational Research - Volume 50, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 48–54