The desire to learn: an analysis of knowledge‐seeking practices among professionals

Jensen, Karen

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“…In addition, this study underscores the personal role in collective learning processes (Billett 2001b(Billett , 2008 and the importance of nurses' engagement in learning as part of their professional work (Jensen 2007). That is, ultimately, it is the active actions of nurses which shape the quality of healthcare workplaces as learning environments.…”

Section: Nursing Learning and Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Hence, she argues that professionals should have the ability to facilitate knowledge creation and to share knowledge. Moreover, within the nursing profession, there seems to be a connection between individual engagement, especially regarding an individual's desire to learn and the efforts made at work to develop activities that encourage learning (Jensen 2007). Accordingly, it is important to consider that both personal experiences and work activities can influence how learning takes place.…”

Section: Learning and Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As professional nurses, they claimed that it was important to develop and build expert-level knowledge rather than merely maintaining their previously acquired knowledge. According to Billett (2006) and Jensen (2007), an important factor is how opportunities at work make engagement in this learning process possible. By analysing nursing experiences in various settings, this study has captured how nurses develop learning strategies with respect to work activities, social relations, and available knowledge resources.…”

Section: Nurses Work As a Learning Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…According to Jensen (2007), professionals face certain challenges connected to lifelong learning because of their responsibility to maintain up-to-date professional expertise. Hence, she argues that professionals should have the ability to facilitate knowledge creation and to share knowledge.…”

Section: Learning and Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Hence, learning plays a key role in their professional development, job satisfaction and the continuous improvement of patient care. Nurses have been shown to envision themselves as lifelong learners (Gerrish 2000;Jensen 2007), and to actively seek socially oriented learning activities, including exchanging, sharing, and confirming knowledge with co-workers in situations of uncertainty (Estabrooks et al 2005), when seeking to improve their technical nursing skills (Berings et al 2007), and when dealing with errors in their work (Bauer and Mulder 2007). Consequently, it is important to understand the factors that shape nurses' ongoing learning and as how to most effectively sustain this learning in the dynamic and demanding work environments in which they practise.…”

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How Nurses Experience Their Work as a Learning Environment

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2009

Vocations and Learning

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This article explores and illuminates the meaning of nurses' experiences with their work as a learning environment. A qualitative hermeneutic approach guided the research process and the analysis and interpretation of the transcribed interview-texts of eleven graduate nurses. Three core themes emerged from these informants' descriptions of their work as a learning environment: 'participation in the work community', 'to engage in interpersonal relations' and 'accessing important knowledge resources'. The study found that, for these informants, an understanding of work as a learning environment is connected to how the nurses elect to engage in their workplaces and how the workplaces regulate their participation in activities and interpersonal relations. The nurses were aware of their responsibilities for continuous learning at work, and to confirm, create and develop their practical and professional knowledge, they obtained support from knowledgeable co-workers and chose among accessible knowledge resources in their particular workplaces. Concurrently, workplace characteristics such as the community of workers, hierarchical structures, cultural practices, and personal relations influenced learning. This understanding of the learning environment in particular workplaces shows the importance of focusing on learning processes as part of professional development in an ever-changing health care system.

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Section: Nursing Learning and Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Learning and Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Nurses Work As a Learning Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Learning and Workmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Emotions in the doing of science: Exploring epistemic affect in elementary teachers' science research experiences

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A critical component to disciplinary engagement in science is that of epistemic affect-learning how to feel as scientists do when engaged in their work. The emotional responses, feelings, and dispositions that emerge as one participates in the construction of knowledge are part and parcel to the experiences of scientists and, we argue, should be integral to the experiences of science learners-and their teachers-as

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The desire to learn: an analysis of knowledge‐seeking practices among professionals

Cited by 69 publications

References 5 publications

How Nurses Experience Their Work as a Learning Environment

How Nurses Experience Their Work as a Learning Environment

VET as Lifelong Learning

Emotions in the doing of science: Exploring epistemic affect in elementary teachers' science research experiences

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