Fostering Practice-Based Innovation Through Reflection at Work

Per Nilsen () and Per-Erik Ellström
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Per Nilsen: Linköping University
Per-Erik Ellström: Linköping University

Chapter Chapter 9 in Practice-Based Innovation: Insights, Applications and Policy Implications, 2012, pp 155-172 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Practice-based knowledge built up through experience is needed to obtain expertise and skills in occupations and work tasks, but this form of knowledge is not conducive to change or renewal. The development of practice-based innovations can be fostered by creative learning made possible through the deliberate use of research-based knowledge to challenge well-established attitudes, beliefs, and practices. Reflection in the workplace can be used as an instrument to integrate research-based knowledge with practice-based knowledge to scrutinise and possibly revise prevailing thought and action patterns, thus facilitating creative learning. Reflection is often not allotted formal priority on the management agenda, yet the potential of reflection cannot be fully realised without formalising this as an expected, legitimised activity in the workplace. Thus, decisions and planned mechanisms, structures, and procedures are needed to facilitate and support reflection in the workplace.

Keywords: Tacit Knowledge; Adaptive Learning; Informal Learning; Workplace Learning; Reflective Action (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21723-4_9

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