What is learned through work?A typology of professional learning in the workplace

Anoush Margaryan, Colin Milligan, Allison LittlejohnGlasgow Caledonian University

RQ1. What do professionals learn through work?

RQ2. What are the similarities and differences in what experienced, novice

and midcareer professionals learn?

Conceptual taxonomies

Empirical taxonomies

conceptual knowledge

procedural knowledge

locative knowledge

dispositional knowledge

Anderson, 1982; Gagne, 1965; Schraw, 2006 and others…

codified/reified knowledge

cultural knowledge

personal knowledge

Eraut, 2007

stable knowledge

implicit understanding

episodic knowledge

impressionistic knowledge

skills

regulative knowledge

Bereiter, 2002

Le Maistre and Pare, 2006

mastery of organisational processes

negotiating the political

dealing with the atypical

Boud and Middleton, 2003

identity development

role performance

interpreting the role

Carbert, 2006

Eraut, 2004

Semi-structured interviews (n=29):novices=10

experienced=12midcareer=7

Inductive analysis of emergent categories

Typology as an/a…

Analytical tool to guide other studies

Practical tool to support L&D at work

Application of typology in other types of org/work contexts

Studies with larger samples to identify more robust patterns

Synthesis of existing typologies