Roy wrote in part (respectfully snipped for space),
>And so John, I suggest this may be an answer to how could it last beyond
>the tenure of those individuals who engaged in the small-scale learning?
>The power and status attached to the Craft associations was established
>to DO JUST THAT.
Two thoughts. First I don't think this idea is too far a cry from the
current concept of unions. Whether or not you find the current role and
function of unions constructive, as a structure in the system, they could
be quite useful in this regard (and in some industries may already serve
this function).
Second, I've always thought of learning that survives the "small scale"
learning as that which finds its way into the processes of the
organization. If the person or persons who "thought up" the idea (or
generated the "original" learning) leave the organization, with their
small scale learning now embedded in the processes of the organization,
the loss of the individual is not a loss of knowledge or the loss of a
"learning generator" (on any scale).
Bill Braun
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