MERSETA has now published Adrienne Bird’s book, From Sweeper to Engineer. You can access it via the front page of their website or down load it directly from this link.
It is a phenomenal piece of work but it does have an unfinished feel to it.
Darryl Mclean who was largely responsible for Chapter 12 made the point that, “Adrienne would never have published (it) as is. She got to version 2.0, needed 4.0 before she’d have been happy. She did the baseline research, never fully got through analysis.”
In my last meeting with her, just a few weeks before she died we discussed some of the issues that are currently bedevilling the recognition of learning in and for the workplace. We couldn’t complete the conversation at the time and were going to discuss it at a later date, as I’m sure she would have done with the other people who contributed.