Theories of work,place and learning

Work- is an activity where individuals alone and together participate in productive endeavors to complete tasks or to achieve outcomes which are either self set or set by others and which may or may not be remunerated. Work is also a process whereby individuals engage in activity from which they gain some satisfaction on completion which may or may not be recognized by others ( Cairns and Mallock, 2006).



Place-Place can cover a very wide range of ideas and situations. It can refer to physical or spiritual locations and also relates to spaces in which we see ourselves as people and learners. Place can also refer to where it is that we think and learn.

















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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman","serif"">Learning- is an interaction between an agentic individual’s mind and a socially constructed community of practice (Cairns andMalloch, 2008)

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman","serif"">Mc Cormack 2000,391 supports the notion ‘workplace learning is being able to provide a common currency and means to navigate the set of orthodoxies that permeate education, training and development’.

<span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">http://www.sagepub.com/upm-data/35381_5438_Malloch_Chap_01.pdf