Contrary to the latest trends, which insist on establishing linear and unidirectional relationships between the problematics of culture and workplace education, this work proposes an inverted reasoning based on the discussion of mutual imbrications between these two fields of knowledge, namely, the problematization of the multiple education forms and procedures with reference to the cultural and symbolic specificities of the organizations of work. To illustrate the relevance of this proposal, the author employs a set of empirical data collected in one of the six case studies developed as part of a transnational research project, subjecting this empirical corpus to an interpretative analysis and a confrontation with his own theoretical assumptions.
organizational culture; symbolic approaches; professional education; workplace education; experiential education; sociology of organizations
