ABSTRACT
Stuart works as an administrator in a local union office for a major British insurance and financial company. He was interviewed as part of an evaluation exercise for his union on completion of a government funded, two-year union project designed to promote workplace learning amongst employees (1). The company strongly promoted the project and recently had created a Learning Centre in the workplace. The interview was structured around the progress achieved by the trade union during the project. The following quotes are taken from his interview. The discussion with Stuart was unusual in that learning was situated within a strongly perceived differentiated and differentiating context. In contrast to the strong local, sector and government policy pressures that viewed workplace learning as a joint employerunion ‘partnership’ designed to benefit all ‘stakeholders’, Stuart’s experience and understanding of learning resulted in a number of distinctive perceptions.
