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Technical Work (technical + work)
Selected AbstractsThe Care,tech Link: An Examination of Gender, Care and Technical Work in Healthcare LabourGENDER, WORK & ORGANISATION, Issue 4 2008Sally Lindsay Despite the dramatic increase of technology in the healthcare field, little is known of how care work and technical work are related. Examining substitute healthcare providers offers a useful illustration of the care,tech link because nursing (care) and medical (technical) models often merge. Forty-two interviews with men and women (nurse practitioners, nurse anaesthetists and physician assistants) were conducted in the USA. The results showed that the gendered nature of care,tech boundaries has shifted in small but important ways and that the gendering of work influenced the shape of these boundaries. Men often encountered barriers when moving too far into the care realm and attempted to overcome this by ,caring cautiously' and emphasizing problem-solving care. Women faced similar barriers from the ,old boys network' when they entered highly technical areas. There is also evidence that men and women challenged existing care,tech boundaries and moved beyond their traditional roles. [source] RULES, TECHNIQUE, AND PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE: A WITTGENSTEINIAN EXPLORATION OF VOCATIONAL LEARNINGEDUCATIONAL THEORY, Issue 4 2006Christopher WinchArticle first published online: 30 NOV 200 He argues that most rule-following is only successful when it involves a degree of flexibility. For instance, most technical work that involves rule-following requires flexibility and situational awareness for success. Technical education that fails to take account of the need to apply rules in a way that accounts for a wide variety of situations is likely to be unsuccessful. Winch offers an account of professional judgment based on Stephen Toulmin's theory of argumentation and discusses progression from novice to expert in terms of Toulmin's analysis. He also considers the relation between vocational education and other practices in the context of the wider civic implications of occupational practice. [source] The Care,tech Link: An Examination of Gender, Care and Technical Work in Healthcare LabourGENDER, WORK & ORGANISATION, Issue 4 2008Sally Lindsay Despite the dramatic increase of technology in the healthcare field, little is known of how care work and technical work are related. Examining substitute healthcare providers offers a useful illustration of the care,tech link because nursing (care) and medical (technical) models often merge. Forty-two interviews with men and women (nurse practitioners, nurse anaesthetists and physician assistants) were conducted in the USA. The results showed that the gendered nature of care,tech boundaries has shifted in small but important ways and that the gendering of work influenced the shape of these boundaries. Men often encountered barriers when moving too far into the care realm and attempted to overcome this by ,caring cautiously' and emphasizing problem-solving care. Women faced similar barriers from the ,old boys network' when they entered highly technical areas. There is also evidence that men and women challenged existing care,tech boundaries and moved beyond their traditional roles. [source] Contextualising Craft: Pedagogical Models for Craft EducationINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ART & DESIGN EDUCATION, Issue 3 2009Sinikka Pöllänen Craft education in Finland is, in many aspects, in a state of change. This concerns the independent position of craft as a school subject, the content of the compulsory craft courses containing textiles and technical work, the implementation of the new concept of a holistic craft process in the National Core Curriculum and so on. This bears relevance to the question of how craft should be taught at school. This article explores the ways in which teachers can strengthen the relevance and meaningfulness of craft education at school. Teachers are challenged to provide more authentic instructional contexts and activities beyond the traditional curriculum in order to address successful living in today's society. One solution is to contextualise this teaching with the help of pedagogical models that realise the concept of holistic craft. The pedagogical models discussed in this article are based on curriculum publications, materials in print and research by other scholars. [source] Evolved sex differences and occupational segregationJOURNAL OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR, Issue 2 2006Kingsley R. Browne Average sex differences in workplace outcomes are often assumed to be products of a malfunctioning labor market that discourages women from nontraditional occupations and a biased educational system that leaves women inadequately prepared for scientific and technical work. Rather than being a product purely of discriminatory demand, however, many sex differences in occupational distribution are at least partially a result of an imbalance in supply. Sex differences in both temperament and cognitive ability, which are products of our evolutionary history, predispose men and women toward different occupational behavior. The tendency of men to predominate in fields imposing high quantitative demands, high physical risk, and low social demands, and the tendency of women to be drawn to less quantitatively demanding fields, safer jobs, and jobs with a higher social content are, at least in part, artifacts of an evolutionary history that has left the human species with a sexually dimorphic mind. These differences are proximately mediated by sex hormones. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Technicians, clients, and professional authority: structured interactions and identity formation in technical workNEW TECHNOLOGY, WORK AND EMPLOYMENT, Issue 1 2002Asaf Darr This ethnographic study of technicians in action supplements a structural analysis of technical labour by delineating the distinct occupational identities of different technicians through their framed interactions with their clients and professionals with whom they work. We suggest that educational reform predicated on a structural conception of technicians will fail to redress the impending technical skill shortages. [source] Using measured performance as a process safety leading indicatorPROCESS SAFETY PROGRESS, Issue 2 2009Kenneth H. Harrington Abstract Periodic demands on layers of protection (i.e., prealarms, safety instrumented functions, relief devices, emergency response systems, etc.) are precursors to more serious incidents. The failure of one or more layers of protection is always part of an accident sequence. When they occur documenting these demands and the associated consequences in a way to facilitate analysis, provides a means to measure process safety management performance. Although process safety metrics are still in their adolescence, this article reviews experiences of development and implementation of a "Challenges to Safety Systems" process safety performance indicator. This article includes a discussion of automating significant portions of the data collection process based on the technical work documented by the CCPS PERD (Process Equipment Reliability Database) initiative. The article also recommends various metrics that can be calculated and describes how the initial foundation developed to support improved process safety can be leveraged to achieve other benefits, such as design improvements and improvements in the reliability, operation, and maintenance of the facility. © 2009 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Process Saf Prog, 2009 [source] | |||||||||||||