Discourse and Development: Notes from the Field

摘要

This chapter develops the view that workplace learning and, more generally, development can be conceived of as comprising two different processes: acquisition and coordination. Although many studies of learning and development focus on the problem of acquisition, we develop the view that coordination is the more central problem. Knowledge systems can be acquired, but, if they are not coordinated with existing knowledge systems, there is little development - only an accretion of more knowledge. Little is known about the conditions under which such coordination can be optimized.