ABSTRACT
This chapter describes and elaborates on the concept of the ‘learning curriculum’ as a means of organising and enacting learning experiences in practice settings (e.g., workplaces). My own personal curriculum – path that I have run – offers an illustration of this concept. The occupation I initially trained in was as a clothing technician and designer for the menswear manufacturing industry. In the early 1970s, I attended a college in Manchester in England, full time over a period of two years, to learn my occupational skills. During that time, I engaged in classes that taught me about patternmaking, textiles, garment design, manufacturing and the operation of production processes and clothing manufacturing equipment, etc. Over this two-year period, I can only recall visiting a clothing factory once, and that was for a brief walk through a large manufacturing plant where hundreds of women were manufacturing men’s suits.
