Human Activity, Social Practices and Lifelong Education

Name: Human Activity, Social Practices and Lifelong Education
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

This volume presents a scientific and practical trend in lifelong education, which focuses on \""human activity\"". This trend is particularly apparent in French speaking countries where a seminal tradition of ergonomics, born in the middle of the 20th century, produced studies about work and workers\u2019 activity in various contexts. Results demonstrate that working activity, firstly, is always complex, creative and enigmatic despite the efforts done by the designers to create prescribing working environments and by managers to control production procedures, and secondly, cannot be understood without specific field studies about real work. This approach influenced adult educational researchers and trainers to develop programs in order to help trainers to better know human activity and its transformations in various social practices (and not only in working context). It also helps them to design learning environments accompanying human activity transformations at various time scales.