4/21/2015 EBSCOhost http://web.a.ebscohost.com/ehost/delivery?sid=4c5acdda-95ee-4032-8e47-4e59f9924122%40sessionmgr4004&vid=4&hid=4206&ReturnUrl=http%3a%2f%2f… 1/16 Title: Authors: Source: Document Type: Subjects: Abstract: Lexile: Full Text Word Count: ISSN: Accession Number: Database: Record: 1 Trainers and learners constructing a community of practice: Masculine work cultures and learning safety in the mining industry. Somerville, Margaret Abrahamsson, Lena Studies in the Education of Adults. Spring2003, Vol. 35 Issue 1, p19. 16p. Article LEARNING EDUCATION TEACHING WORK environment ADULT learning ORGANIZATIONAL learning MINERAL industries Analyzes the cultures of mine work in which trainers and mine workers operate and specifically, their responses about their teaching and learning practices. Discussion on informal workplace learning; Two dimensions to understanding vocational educators' practice; Background on the Mines Rescue Station, an important site for the production/construction and spreading of the story of mining work; Conclusion. 1450 8629 0266-0830 10458196 MasterFILE Premier Trainers and learners constructing a community of practice: Masculine work cultures and learning safety in the mining industry Abstract This article begins with the practical problem of the failure of training in safe work practices to result in changes to the rate of accident and injury in mining workplaces. A review of the literature in workplace training and workplace learning suggests that there has been little investigation of the relationship between how trainers train, and what learners learn in the workplace. Interviews and participant observation were carried out with 20 mine workers in a coal-mining organisation and seven trainers in a Mines Rescue Service about masculine work cultures and teaching and learning safety in the mining industry. In this article we analyse the cultures of mine work in which trainers and mine workers operate and specifically, their responses about their teaching and learning practices. Analysis suggests that even though trainers and workers do not work in the same organisation or geographical location, they co-participate in the ongoing construction of a community