Changing technologies and competition in the field of information and communication technology (ICT) are challenging the learning of individual workers and teams alongside and through work. Organisations call for employees’ autonomy and self-directedness executed by agile operations and low hierarchies, where learning is also increasingly the responsibility of the individuals and teams themselves and occurs in practice without strong control of the organisation. Therefore, the multidimensional concept of self-directed learning becomes essential in the context of learning at work. In this study, we examine how employees in the ICT sector describe self-directed learning practices in the context of workplace learning. Our data consist of interviews with ICT employees in two organisations, which undergo an applied discourse analysis. The workers talked about self-directed learning as an obliged, creativity-enhanced as well as flexible and fast-paced practice. Self-directed learning was also described as a practice tied to work itself. The paper concludes with a discussion on how these partly conflicting discourses about self-directed learning practice in work could be considered in practices related to enhancing such learning in the ICT field. Suggestions for future investigations are also presented.

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自主学习作为工作场所学习的一种实践：ICT工作中自主学习的解释性汇编

信息通信技术（ICT）领域中不断变化的技术和竞争正在挑战单个工人和团队以及与之一起工作的学习。组织要求员工通过敏捷操作和低层次结构来实现自治和自我指导，在这种情况下，学习也越来越成为个人和团队自身的责任，并且在实践中没有组织的强有力控制。因此，自我指导学习的多维概念在工作学习中变得至关重要。在这项研究中，我们研究了ICT行业的员工如何在工作场所学习的背景下描述自我导向的学习实践。我们的数据包括对两个组织的ICT员工进行的访谈，并对他们进行了应用话语分析。工人们将自我导向学习称为一种强制性的，增强创造力的，灵活而快节奏的实践。自主学习也被描述为与工作本身联系在一起的一种实践。本文最后讨论了如何在与增强ICT领域的此类学习相关的实践中考虑有关工作中自我指导学习实践的这些部分矛盾的论述。还提出了进一步调查的建议。本文最后讨论了如何在与增强ICT领域的此类学习有关的实践中考虑有关工作中自我指导的学习实践的这些部分矛盾的论述。还提出了进一步调查的建议。本文最后讨论了如何在与增强ICT领域的此类学习有关的实践中考虑有关工作中自我指导的学习实践的这些部分矛盾的论述。还提出了进一步调查的建议。