How Does a Newcomer Construct Identity? A Socio-Cultural Approach to Workplace Learning

Autor/inn/en	Blaka, Gunnhild; Filstad, Cathrine
Titel	How Does a Newcomer Construct Identity? A Socio-Cultural Approach to Workplace Learning
Quelle	In: International Journal of Lifelong Education, 26 (2007) 1, S.59-73 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0260-1370
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Learning Processes; Real Estate; Obstetrics; Allied Health Personnel; Entry Workers; Self Concept; Identification (Psychology); Power Structure; Work Environment; Acculturation; Interprofessional Relationship; Individual Characteristics; Cultural Context; Social Environment; Norway + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Learning process; Lernprozess; Grundstück; Geburtshilfe; Selbstkonzept; Arbeitsmilieu; Akkulturation; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Soziales Umfeld; Norwegen
Abstract	The aim of this article is to develop the foundations of a socio-cultural approach and to determine how this shapes our perception of a newcomer's construction of identity in two different workplaces: a high-technology delivery ward with newly employed midwives and a real estate agency with newly employed real estate agents. We explore how newcomers construct their identity through participation in different communities of practice at work and focus on what kind of learning processes the newcomer must be involved in and how they become involved. The construction of identity is seen as a mutual process between individual disposition (pre-existing identity) and the work structure. We find that initiative and the ability to act in anticipation of future problems or needs are decisive characteristics for how the newcomer learns, and that these are important for the creation of personal knowledge and for the ability to develop a new identity in a new profession. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10