Workforce and Workplace Learning Concentration Proseminar

Harvard HGSE

Adults spend most of their working lives learning, in roles and organizations with their own demands, incentives, and constraints. This seminar treats that learning as its own subject, from the cognitive processes that shape how an adult builds skill to the institutional systems that decide where and how that learning happens. It is a required part of the Workforce and Workplace Learning Concentration.The fall semester looks at how adults actually learn. We cover cognition, motivation, skill…