Learning Skilled Trades in the Workplace

This open access book describes and explains a fifty-year-old woman’s process of developing trade competences. Drawing from daily journal entries, photographs, interviews from 10 fabrication shops, and online forums about trades, this autoethnography details the author's learning process at Howe’s W...

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Breadth and depth of expertise
Expert perception
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Learning how to fabricate
Learning a trade
Learning in a job shop
Learning health and safety
A job shop versus a production shop
Welding and metal fabrication
Tradeswomen
Women learning a trade
Women in skilled trades
Deliberative practice of a trade
Characteristics of scaffolded interaction
Making mistakes when learning
Using US Customary measurements
Invoices in fabrication work
Learning to read technical drawings
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Learning Skilled Trades in the Workplace
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topic Development from novice to expert
Breadth and depth of expertise
Expert perception
Learning how to weld
Learning how to fabricate
Learning a trade
Learning in a job shop
Learning health and safety
A job shop versus a production shop
Welding and metal fabrication
Tradeswomen
Women learning a trade
Women in skilled trades
Deliberative practice of a trade
Characteristics of scaffolded interaction
Making mistakes when learning
Using US Customary measurements
Invoices in fabrication work
Learning to read technical drawings
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thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNP Adult education, continuous learning
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thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFC Literacy
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Breadth and depth of expertise
Expert perception
Learning how to weld
Learning how to fabricate
Learning a trade
Learning in a job shop
Learning health and safety
A job shop versus a production shop
Welding and metal fabrication
Tradeswomen
Women learning a trade
Women in skilled trades
Deliberative practice of a trade
Characteristics of scaffolded interaction
Making mistakes when learning
Using US Customary measurements
Invoices in fabrication work
Learning to read technical drawings
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