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Faculty Research Fellow
PETER MANNING
Peter
Manning
Brooks Professor
College of Criminal Justice
400 Churchill Hall
617-373-7748
LEARNING
IN POLICE ORGANIZATIONS
The premise
of Northeastern’s COOP program is the idea that the coop experience, or
more broadly, practice-oriented education, adds significantly to the skill
base of students, differentiates them from others in the workplace in
their first jobs, and perhaps facilitates on-the-job learning and learning
to learn. Three types of information should be gathered when studying
learning within an organization:
- How the learning
of tasks, routines, and attitudes takes place.
Includes: In what setting, with whom, when and how
- How individuals cope and adapt when things ‘go wrong’ (the perceived
problematics of such learning)
Includes: Stress, indecisiveness or reflection
- How to learn or how to recognize a new context for learning (meta-learning)
Peter
Manning’s study will gather these three types of information by using interviews,
focus groups and documents (evaluations of coop students and employers).
This will allow him to examine learning in police organizations and may
illuminate generic issues in learning in POE experiences. His research will
address two questions:
- Do police officers
who had an NU coop job transfer learning, skills, and meta-learning
skills from the coop experience to their present police job?
- How do coop students
compare themselves in this regard to other officers of their same age
and experience?
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