PAPER 13 By Pär Nygren, Professor in psychology and social work, Høgskolen, Lillehammer, Norway In this paper the author presents a model of the participative development at work (i.e. development at work is run by and involves the employees) that has been implemented locally in the selected ASP-institutions (i.e. worked with the intervention 2006-08). The presented model is based on Nygren's (1988; 1999a; 1999b) model of democratic participatory development at work but it has been refined and further developed to match the objectives and preconditions of the ASP-project. Participative development at work rests on the assumed precondition that theory and objectives, rather than methods, are the driving force of the pedagogical work; but in fact, methods and tools often control the practice. The author firstly presents four fundamental principles for successful development at work. They are 1) to take a theory and goal-driven approach to work rather than a tight method-driven approach, 2) to work from a principle of participant-driven development and keeping the management at the core of the organization of employee involvement, 3) to apply a holistic view on development, i.e. knowledge, actions and implementation are perceived as interrelated and 4) to think of research and pedagogical development as constituting reciprocal preconditions. Secondly, he presents a theoretical point about human development, the organisation and process of the development at work in pedagogical institutions. Thirdly and lastly, specific proposals for a developmental process in the individual ASP-intervention institution are presented. The process is characterized the employees developing their own capacities and action competences as they develop their practice. |
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