Expansive Learning in Professional Contexts: A Materialist Perspective

by Christian Beighton

Overview

This book discusses approaches to organizational learning from a materialist point of view. Inspired by research into Police Firearms training, features of expansive learning inform the development of perspectives on training which challenge traditional modes of research and delivery. The book critically reviews a range of approaches to expansive learning and organizational research, establishing the bases and limitations of an Expansive Learning Index whose aim is to support collaborative provision in the context of work-based research. Reflecting on this process, it stresses the strangeness and mobility of workplace learning and develops a philosophical pragmatics for professional development. Approaches to knowledge and enquiry which place language and subjectivity at the heart of development are challenged by a more pragmatic approach to expansive learning: its consequences for training, research, and professional development lead to a discussion of the need for immanentforms of professional ethics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137574350
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	08/25/2016
Edition description:	1st ed. 2016
Pages:	119
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Christian Beighton is Senior Lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. He has many years of experience in teaching and training in a variety of settings, including as an Honorary Firearms Instructor. His previous book Deleuze and Lifelong Learning published 2015.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Strange Matters.- Chapter 1. Expansive Learning.- Chapter 2. Researching Organizational Learning: Expansive Perspectives.- Chapter 3. Expansive Learning in Action.- Chapter 4. Towards an Expansive Learning Index.- Chapter 5. Ethics and Expansive Learning.- Conclusion.