Essence of learning: Social capital in workplace learning communities

Abstract

For so many people, they do their formal training when they are young and then their ongoing learning is simply what they learn on the job. People tend to think of their skills as the original piece of paper that they got, not this immense wealth of information that they've picked up along the way. People have to learn how to value that and how to make that happen. If you want to move from job to job, how do you transform the skills that you've picked up on the job into something tangible that a new employer can recognise? Learning how to value one's skills and knowledge, and transforming these into new behaviours, lies at the core of effective workplace learning. This paper has mainly focused on the significance of learning engagements for workplaces. However, effective workplace learning engagements string together to build into learning events. Learning events can have reciprocal benefits for the workplace and their connected communities. Additional lessons from the social capital literature lie in the benefits to be gained for enterprises by facilitating a blend of networking, values-development and trust between workplaces and outside communities, as well as within them, with all the cautions about balance and critique that the term 'real learning' involves.

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