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This chapter addresses the third and final dimension of the learning as negotiation model advanced through the book – The Three Dimensions of Negotiation framework. Drawing on a range of empirical data, it elaborates how workers’ personal practices are aspects of and highly influential in the constant state of flux that characterises work. Workers are found to be transacting their personal practice through the negotiations in which they are engaged. Through the concept of transaction, the chapter outlines how the person and their practice, their values and priorities and the worth these hold for them, and the resources that support their engagement in work are constantly transforming. Negotiation is, therefore, the constant state of transformation into which workers flow as influential resources, unique among the many, that shape and are shaped by co-participative practice as engagement in work. Such transformation is to be expected – work is transactive. That is, more than active and more than interactive, work is workers’ negotiation of the changes that mark the constant flux they are not just engaged in but are part of. Such transformations are evidenced as people in flow, personal changes, whereby people are becoming more of who they are in work. Similarly, such transformations are evidenced as practice in flow by the altered work and occupational practices that are the enactments, priorities and values that define work. And equally, such transformation are marked as resources in flow by the new resources that are brought to the enactment of work – the materials, tools and relationships that emerge as learning and become the parameters on and from which ‘the next’ is negotiated. The ubiquity of change and of the change of all that is ‘brought together’ through the negotiations that comprise work-learning is identified and conceptualised through Negotiation as Flow.
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Smith, R. (2018). Negotiation as Flow. In: Learning in Work. Professional and Practice-based Learning, vol 23. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75298-3_7
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