Learning, work, and language games

Abstract: "The article provides an example of psycho-societal analysis of work related learning. Initially a conceptual framework of learning and life experience is established drawing on Alfred Lorenzer and Oskar Negt, and the interactional development of psychoanalysis. A case of learning experience from research into a retraining program for unskilled workers, exposing a very conflictual subjective experience of a traineeship, is presented and commented. The worker's experience is interpreted focusing on the gender aspects of the conflicts, seeing the learning process in the context of a work identity process, which is related to a career shift enforced by labor market transition requiring male workers to retrain for a social work profession which used to be female, and more widely to a reconfiguration of the societal relation between work and gender. The final section discusses the methodological framework for analyzing learning processes by means of interpreting language use. The notion

Object Details

• Alternative title: Lernen, Arbeit und Sprachspiele
• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Learning, work, and language games ; volume:38 ; number:2 ; year:2013 ; pages:91-106 ; Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet (peer reviewed) ; Historical social research ; 38, Heft 2 (2013), 91-106

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Psychologie ; Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Weber, Kirsten

Further information

• DOI: 10.12759/hsr.38.2013.2.91-106
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-387784
• Rights: Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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