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He addresses such central questions as: How do people learn at work? What are they learning? How can tacit knowledge be made explicit? His response to the third question is that the process is not as simple as many commentators claim because sometimes “knowers are unaware of their knowledge due to its implicit acquisition; or because they cannot find a representation of it which might enable them to communicate it to others” (Chapter Seven, this volume). Above all, what Eraut and his team have demonstrated is that any theory of a learning society or of a learning organisation must recognise not only the significance of work-based learning and the critical importance of informal learning at work, but also that the attributes and dispositions required for lifelong learning in the workplace can only be acquired in the workplace.
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