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dc.contributor.authorBillett, S
dc.contributor.authorWoerkom, MV
dc.contributor.editorPeter Jarvis & John Holford
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T12:11:56Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T12:11:56Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.date.modified2011-06-30T08:43:38Z
dc.identifier.issn0260-1370
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/02601370802047833
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/21345
dc.description.abstractThis paper evaluates the need and prospects for older workers to develop and deploy effective and critical personal epistemologies in order to maintain workplace competence, successfully negotiate work transitions and secure ontological security in their working life. A personal epistemology is an approach to and a practice of learning directed by individuals, often for purposes that are important for them. This seems particularly important for older workers as both the institutional and brute facts (Searle 1995) that comprise workplace affordances and maturation factors, respectively, may not be supportive of their attempts to maintain competence in their working lives. Instead, as both individual agents and parts of collective actions, the exercise of personal epistemologies premised on critical reflection stands as a means for older workers to understand and respond to the changing requirements of work life. These propositions are introduced and elaborated using a study of older workers' capacities to be critically reflective of their practice and enact workplace change.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
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dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.publisher.urihttp://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/02601370.asp
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom333
dc.relation.ispartofpageto348
dc.relation.ispartofissue3
dc.relation.ispartofjournalInternational Journal of Lifelong Education
dc.relation.ispartofvolume27
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEducation systems
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3903
dc.titlePersonal epistemologies and older workers
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Education and Professional Studies
gro.rights.copyright© 2008 Routledge. This is an electronic version of an article published in International Journal of Lifelong Education, Volume 27, Issue 3, pages 333-348. International Journal of Lifelong Education is available online at: http://www.informaworld.com with the open URL of your article.
gro.date.issued2008
gro.hasfulltextFull Text
gro.griffith.authorBillett, Stephen R.


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