ABSTRACT
A ‘purposeful’ disposition towards learning refers to a specific intent to pursue learning to strengthen capabilities for navigating and meaningfully participating in non-permanent work specifically. A sense of ‘floating’ or ‘drifting’ appears to be stronger than that of having specific career goals or intentions that may provide focus for learning and development. Work equated to income more strongly than notions of learning and development towards becoming better at a craft or better at navigating non-permanent work. Openness to learning may be broad but undirected and unlikely to lead to deeper learning and identification along with a feeling of either being lost or uncommitted to jobs that are not seen as containing ‘good work’. Dispositions towards learning and development being more purposeful or opportunistic, and broader or more contained can mediate the co-creation of learning affordances to be expansive or restrictive.
