Questions to Facilitate the Workplace Experience
- What is the primary purpose of the workplace enterprise?
- What aspect of that enterprise are you observing?
- What is the primary focus of that aspect?
- What is problematic that the personnel are dealing with?
- What concepts, principles, and ideas are being used to deal with the focus?
- What fields and disciplines are the sources of the knowledge?
- What are the connections or connecting points of the multiple knowledge realms?
- Diagram these connections.
- Is this knowledge taught in school? Where and when is it taught?
- How is the way in which it is taught similar or different from the way it is used in the workplace?
- Where did the personnel learn the knowledge they are using?
- What do they say about how that knowledge was taught in school?
- Do you think they are accurate in their responses? Why?
- How might the knowledge be taught more effectively in school?