Learning through working life: self and individuals’ agentic action

By Stephen Billett, M. Pavlova. 2005

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The Dynamics of Professional Identity Formation: Graduates’ Transitions from Higher Education to Working Life (2009, background): “ Billett and Pavlova (2005) see it as an intertwined relationship where the individuals’ perception of their work and how they identify with it is dependent on the extent to which their work permits them to ‘be themselves’ and exercise their sense of self.”
Lifelong learning and self: work, subjectivity and learning (2010, background): “This process of engagement in work and work-related learning is mediated by individuals' subjectivities (Allan 2005 ; Etelapelto 2004 ; Billett and Pavlova 2005 ; Fenwick 2004 ; Somerville and Abrahamsson 2003 ).”
Relational Interdependence Between Social and Individual Agency in Work and Working Life (2006, background): “, pain, hunger; Copleston, 1994; Haldane & Ross, 1971). Moreover, for Descartes beatitude was the “tranquillity or contentment of soul tenable in this life by one’s own efforts” (Copleston). That is, the self in action with the world constitutes this desirable state. Similarly, Schopenhauer (1883, a”