Abstract

GRANJO, Paulo. Learning the danger and to be one of us. Neophytes’ integration in oil refineries. Rev. Lusófona de Educação [online]. 2007, n.9, pp.103-123. ISSN 1645-7250.

Departing from the observation of daily work in Sines oil refinery, the article shows how do workers learn and interpret the labouring dangers trough a self-organised process of “legitimate peripheral participation”, and debates the abilities and potential of the knowledge and notions reproduced during that process, to the management of technological dangers. The question is highly pertinent because the observed learning/integrative process has a direct impact on the perception of the threats (reproducing a non-probabilistic notion of danger which induces attitudes based on precaution), on the limitation of the dangers inherent to the installed technology, and on the neutralisation of social factors of danger.

Keywords : Learning; legitimate peripheral participation; industry; uncertainty; danger; Portugal.

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