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The process of constructing new competencies in the family agricultural production unit

Issue title: IEA 2012: 18th World congress on Ergonomics - Designing a sustainable future

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Montedo, Uiara Bandineli

Affiliations: Department of Production Engineering, Polytechnic School, University of São Paulo, Av. Prof. Almeida Prado, trav. 2, n°128 – 05508-070 – Cidade Universitária – São Paulo/SP – Brazil. E-mail address: uiara.montedo@usp.br

Keywords: ATWAD, agricultural ergonomics, family farming, family agriculture, cognition, competencies

DOI: 10.3233/WOR-2012-0138-76

Journal: Work, vol. 41, no. Supplement 1, pp. 76-80, 2012

Published: 2012
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Abstract

This article discusses the difficulties dairy farmers face when they decide to install a new type of production on their units. We intend to discuss the nature of the new competencies the farmers will construct in order to install new production ateliers, and to show the complexity of the means they used, the difficulties they face in this process, and the strategies farmers develop in consonance with the practical knowledge of their profession. The method used was Ergonomic Work Analysis, together with semi-structured interviews, done after sessions of observation and work analysis. The results show that it is possible to apprehend a part of the complexity of the process of constructing competencies among dairy farmers, the diversity of kinds of resources they mobilize, integrate and transfer in this construction process that materializes through their activities in the work context.

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