eprintid: 10001284
rev_number: 23
eprint_status: archive
userid: 587
source: pure
dir: disk0/00/00/12/84
datestamp: 2010-03-10 10:37:42
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status_changed: 2010-03-10 10:37:42
type: article
metadata_visibility: show
item_issues_count: 0
creators_name: Bakker, Arthur
creators_name: Hoyles, Celia
creators_name: Noss, Richard
creators_name: Kent, Phillip
creators_id: 
creators_id: c.hoyles@ioe.ac.uk
creators_id: r.noss@ioe.ac.uk
creators_id: p.kent@ioe.ac.uk
title: Improving work processes by making the invisible visible
ispublished: pub
divisions: B14
keywords: Adults, Workplace, Skills development, Cross-national, Numeracy
note: This is an electronic version of an article published in Bakker, Arthur and Hoyles, Celia and Noss, Richard and Kent, Phillip (2006) Improving work processes by making the invisible visible. Journal of Education and Work, 19 (4). pp. 343-361. Journal of Education and Work is available online at: http://www.informaworld.com/10.1080/13639080600867133
abstract: Increasingly, companies are taking part in process improvement programmes, which brings about a growing need for employees to interpret and act on data representations. We have carried out case studies in a range of companies to identify the existence and need of what we call Techno-mathematical Literacies (TmL): functional mathematical knowledge mediated by tools and grounded in the context of specific work situations. Based on data gathered from a large biscuit manufacturing and packaging company, we focus our analysis here on semiotic mediation within activity systems and identify two sets of related TmL: the first concerns rendering some invisible aspects visible through the production of mathematical signs; the second concerns developing meanings for action from an interpretation of these signs. We conclude with some more general observations concerning the role that mathematical signs play in the workplace. The need
date: 2006-10
date_type: published
oa_status: green
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
full_text_status: public
publication: Journal of Education and Work
volume: 19
pagerange: 343-361
pages: 19
refereed: TRUE
issn: 1363-9080
citation:        Bakker, Arthur;    Hoyles, Celia;    Noss, Richard;    Kent, Phillip;      (2006)    Improving work processes by making the invisible visible.                   Journal of Education and Work , 19    pp. 343-361.          Green open access   
 
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