Open AccessIndividual Learning in Construction Projects: Professions and their Approaches
Author(s) -
Ingeborg Wasif,
PerErik Josephson,
Alexander Styhre
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
construction economics and building
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.4
H-Index - 20
ISSN - 2204-9029
DOI - 10.5130/ajceb.v10i3.1811
Subject(s) - knowledge management , competition (biology) , reading (process) , professional learning community , learning organization , informal learning , cooperative learning , experiential learning , social learning , learning sciences , open learning , business , psychology , computer science , pedagogy , political science , teaching method , ecology , law , biology
New materials, use of sophisticated technologies and increased customer demands, in combination with growing competition among construction companies, have led to a high organizational boundaries. The results indicate that personal networks are the most common source of learning for all professions. While clients, architects, and designers also engage in reading and attending courses, site managers and workers are less engaged in these activities. Experimenting and organizing for learning appear to be underutilized strategies by all professions. This leads to the conclusion that attempts to increase learning have to address the differences in learning behaviours of the various groups. Further, focus on experimenting and organizing for learning is a possibility to change the learning behaviour from learning as a consequence of problems to learning for future improvement.degree of specialization. For successful integration of the different professional specialists, there is a need for shared learning between project co-workers. Based on twenty eight interviews in six different Swedish construction projects, this paper illustrates strategies for individual and shared learning, among different actors and across variou