Barriers to research in workplace learning

This paper identifies barriers to effective research about how we learn about bodies and illness in the workplace. It examines the dilemmas involved in obtaining situated research data from workers in the workplace. It reveals a conflict between the different interests in the workplace and the paradox that this poses for research in workplace learning and training. The conflict between the obligation of the workplace to meet the needs of its workers and to protect other interests in the workplace is one that effectively decontextualises the workers as experiencing living bodies. While their stories may be experienced and told in the private sphere there is no device by which they can be told and scrutinised in the public sphere which they simultaneously inhabit.

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Volume one of these proceedings is indexed at TD/TNC 68.31, volume two is indexed at TD/TNC 68.32 and individual papers may be found from TD/TNC 68.17 to TD/TNC 68.29 and from TD/TNC 68.33 to TD/TNC 68.100

This paper identifies barriers to effective research about how we learn about bodies and illness in the workplace. It examines the dilemmas involved in obtaining situated research data from workers in the workplace. It reveals a conflict between the different interests in the workplace and the paradox that this poses for research in workplace learning and training. The conflict between the obligation of the workplace to meet the needs of its workers and to protect other interests in the workplace is one that effectively decontextualises the workers as experiencing living bodies. While ...  [+] Show more