Learning and personal epistemologies among students in three work placement settings

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Table 1. Enacting personal epistemologies in work placement practices.

Personal epistemologies	Expressions as derived from students’ accounts
Judgment	Students being afforded with independent decision-making and with tasks that require independent measures to solve. Independence provides valuable opportunities for learning.
Practices	Various tasks prove context sensitive. Enacting practices continuously provide unforeseen obstacles and challenges the students did not anticipate.
Identity	Encountering various work-related situations can make students consider new approaches to problems. These encounters also engender students’ consideration of individuals’ subjective role in work and worthwhile work to pursue in future situations. Subjectivity in terms of students’ life histories can be negotiated continuously in enacting work.

Figure 1. Conceptual model of work placement learning and personal epistemologies as drawn from our analysis