Interdependencies at work: constituting reflection, performance, dialogue and reward

Abstract

This paper discusses progress in a two-year study of the work, working lives and learning of twelve workers. They comprise four groups of three workers in emergency service, gymnasium, restaurant and IT help desk work settings. The concept of relational interdependence between individual and social agency (Billett 2005), is used to understand how their participation, learning and remaking of cultural practices that comprises their work progresses. These processes are held to be products of the interdependence between social suggestion experienced at and individual agency exercised through engagement in work life. In identifying and elaborating bases of these interdependencies and their consequences for changes to individuals ’ cognitive experience and sense of self (i.e. learning), and the remaking of cultural practices (e.g. workplace practice), four linked and overlapping bases for understanding the processes of interdependencies emerge. These are: (i) reflection and review (i.e. reflection); (ii) performance roles (kinds of selves developed in the workplace); (iii) prospects for dialogue (i.e. opportunities for interpersonal interactions); and (iv) how

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