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Amidst projected shortages of skilled workers, policy measures to retain older workers in employment include increasing their participation in learning. However, the few studies produced to date examining older workers' learning suggest complexities not recognized in human capital conceptions of skill development and assumptions of declining seniors' participation. To build on these studies, particularly in older professionals' learning, which has received little attention despite concerns regarding professional transitions in a knowledge economy, this article examines older professionals' approaches to and conceptions of learning. The study involved 816 accountants' survey responses and 60 interviews with older (50+) Certified Management Accountants in Canada. Far from withdrawing from learning, these older professionals are particularly focused in what, when and how they engage. Their enactments are complex, and demonstrate ambivalences related to discourses of both age and learning. More fundamentally, they negotiate the various pressures associated with new capitalism strategically: deliberately complying with some, refusing others, and generally resisting subjectification either as excluded 'older workers' or as continuous learners.

Co-production, typically defined as services and products that are planned and delivered in full conjunction with clients, has become a popular policy discourse and prescription for professional practice across a wide range of public services. Literature tends to herald the democratic and even transformative potential of co-production, yet there is yet little empirical evidence of its processes and negotiations at the 'chalkface' of everyday practice. This article adopts a sociomaterial theoretical frame of professional knowing-in-practice to analyse these negotiations, drawing from a case study of community policing. The argument is situated in terms of implications of these co-production practices for professional learning.

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to address issues of practicing social responsibility (SR) in small business, where SR implementation challenges are unique. The discussion examines the difficulties encountered by small business owners adopting SR practices, and the various strategies they learned in the process.Design/methodology/approachA total of 23 small business owner‐managers located in Western Canada were interviewed in‐depth, individually, and in groups. Group interviews were useful for validating and extending the themes and contradictions that arose in individual interviews, particularly in identifying the most common SR challenges and frustrations, and to compare individuals' learning patterns and diverse strategies of response.FindingsThe paper findings show that owners learned SR by working through three main areas of challenge within everyday sociomaterial practices: positioning SR commitments and affiliations; balancing diverse stakeholders with SR ideals and costs; and negotiating value conflicts within SR practice, as part of "becoming" a particular enterprise of SR engagement.Originality/valueThe paper suggests that SR may be most fruitfully studied by examining the traces of the networks, linkages, and boundaries formulated through everyday interactions, focusing not just on the social networks and information exchange among humans, but more deeply on the sociomaterial networks within which new practices such as SR emerge. Second, the paper underscores the importance of conceptualizing SR "learning" more in terms of practices that emerge through challenge and conflict than in acquisition and application of new knowledge and attitudes.

"This book presents leading-edge perspectives and methodologies to address emerging issues of concern for professional learning in contemporary society. The conditions for professional practice and learning are changing dramatically in the wake of globalization, new modes of knowledge production, new regulatory regimes, and increased economic-political pressures. In the wake of this, a number of challenges for learning emerge: more practitioners become involved in interprofessional collaborationdevelopments in new technologies and virtual workworlds emergence of transnational knowledge cultures and interrelated circuits of knowledge. The space and time relations in which professional practice and learning are embedded are becoming more complex, as are the epistemic underpinnings of professional work. Together these shifts bring about intersections of professional knowledge and responsibilities that call for new conceptions of professional knowing.Exploring what the authors call sociomaterial perspectives on professional learning they argue that theories that trace not just the social but also the material aspects of practice, such as tools, technologies, texts but also bodies and actions - are useful for coming to terms with the challenges described above. Reconceptualising Professional Learning develops these issues through specific contemporary cases focused on one of the book's three main themes: (1) professionals' knowing in practice, (2) professionals' work arrangements and technologies, or (3) professional responsibility. Each chapter draws upon innovative theory to highlight the sociomaterial webs through which professional learning may be reconceptualised. Authors are based in Australia, Canada, Italy, Norway, Sweden, and the USA as well as the UK and their cases are based in a range of professional settings including medicine, teaching, nursing, engineering, social services, the creative industries, and more.By presenting detailed accounts of these themes from a sociomaterial perspective, the book opens new questions and methodological approaches. These can help make more visible what is often invisible in today's messy dynamics of professional learning, and point to new ways of configuring educational support and policy for professionals

"Tara Fenwick und Richard Edwards diskutieren in ihrem Beitrag die Auswirkungen digitaler Technologien auf professionelles Wissen und Handeln. Sie arbeiten den ambivalenten Charakter digitaler Analysetechniken heraus, die beispielsweise in der Gesundheitsvorsorge hilfreich sein können, aber auch an Grenzen stoßen und zu einseitigen Deutungen führen können. Verführerisch hieran ist, dass Massendaten für sich zu sprechen scheinen, während die sozialen Prozesse der Erzeugung und Nutzung von 'Big Data' oftmals unsichtbar bleiben. Zu den Machteffekten, die hieraus resultieren, zählt die - zum Teil politisch und ökonomisch forcierte - Tendenz, professionelle Verantwortung an digitale Analysemechanismen zu delegieren. Nach einem Vergleich zwischen Konzepten professioneller Verantwortung und Rechenschaftslegung analysieren Fenwick und Edwards den Einsatz digitaler Technologien in verschiedenen professionellen Feldern. Um den bestehenden oder sich abzeichnenden Herausforderungen zu begegnen, erörtern sie abschließend einige Implikationen für die akademische Ausbildung von Professionellen." (Autorenreferat)

1. A way to intervene, not a theory of what to think -- 2. Knowledge, innovation and knowing in practice -- 3. (De)naturalizing teaching and learning -- 4. Entangling curriculum-making -- 5. Networking technologized learning -- 6. (Un)making standards in education -- 7. Educational reform and planned change -- 8. (Ac)counting for education -- 9. (De)centring educational policy -- 10. Messy research -- 11. Translating ANT in education.

This book focuses on relations among subjectivity, work and learning that represent a point of convergence for diverse disciplinary traditions and practices. There are contributions from leading scholars in the field. They provide emerging perspectives that are elaborating the complex relations among subjectivity, work and learning, and circumstances in which they are played out