Learning Transfer or Transforming Learning?: Student Interns Reinventing Expert Writing Practices in the Workplace

L'article rend compte d'une etude qualitative portant sur les experiences de 24 Ctudiants de premier cycle inscrits a une majeure en redaction, au moment de leur entree dans le monde du travail. En exerrant des taches de redaction dans une variete de genres discursifs, ces internes ont mis en a:uvre et approfondi des pratiques d'ecriture d'experts par le biais de leurs interactions avec leurs collegues de travail et d'artefacts culturellement construits. Remettant en question la conception cognitiviste du transfert des connaissances, l'etude suggere que la transformation de l'apprentissage a pennis la reinvention des pratiques des experts. L'ctude presente aussi une variante du modele d'acquisition du savoir en situation de dcbutant en decrivant comment Les internes ont compense leur manque de savoir-faire sur le terrain par l'acces aux elements cognitifs inherents awe artefacts culturels.

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