Tauba Lubega- a 24-year old Ugandan painter and constructor with Ubuko Construction Company acquired his painting skills through practice and doing. He first learnt brick molding, building, construction and now painting. He learnt all these skills at the work place through practice from his father who is similarly a builder and practiced his painting first on trees where he was asked to use three different colours.
His six months experience in building and construction makes him think that his services are highly appreciated by many people especially those of YATC but needs to make himself known.
Reflections
- Having learnt by doing and no backup knowledge, this is likely to affect the quality of his work negatively forexample if he has no idea of colour shades or schemes.
- He had no protective wear and this may partly be affiliated to lack of this knowledge of safety during working.
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The title and the content...
I find that the title of yours invites me to read a kind of dialogue. The text does not actually appear to be the one of a dialogue to me, why is that?
You have made your own reflections separate from the text and by that I don't have no reason to doubt who is Lubega and who is Aidah in this text.
Pushing the publish button ...
You have through your reflections given a significant conribution to the understanding of some of the characteristics of learning at the workplace. I guess quite a few educators will nod their heads thinking that schools are good for something. And at the same time, perhaps an important contribution is to find ways to improve the quality of the learning which takes place at the endless number of workplace-"schools"? This in my mind, among others requires observations, documentations and reflections as this post offers.
Hello, Aidah, you are doing a lot that side as I do here.
One question for you: The title of your posting portray to me, you having dialogue with the worker and not instructor actually, however, in the content of your illustrations, I don't really read any dialogue but explanation, why so?
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