ABSTRACT

This chapter describes two goals. One is to delineate the case studies using the literature reviewed to provide deeper insights into the journey making and work practices of the participants' current occupations. The other goal is to formulate, using the findings, a conceptual framework to help us, as users, to understand and apply the two dimensions of learning and occupational practices. The analysis covered the various stages. They included identifying phrases, patterns and themes and triangulating the identified scenarios from the case studies. Formative practise or professional development has the next highest number of hits. This practice is ongoing professional activity that occurs after qualification in the relevant occupations of the contributors. Social interactions are activities that take place in social environments where there are exchanges between people within a system of rules, codes of behaviour and other codified or non-codified regulations.