Stephen Billett, Mimetic Learning at Work: Learning in the Circumstances of Practice

This book examines mimesis and mimetic learning. Mimesis comprises the process of observation, imitation, and rehearsal, encompassing the innate and foundational bases for how humans construe and construct what they experience and how they act, particularly in relation to goal-directed behaviour. Mimesis involves the generation of representation of what is being observed and the process of generating that representation and making judgements about the degree by which it needs to be represented. This differs from mimicry, which attempts to generate or reproduce bodily movement or effect.

Chapter 4 highlights three foundational elements to understanding and enacting learning through work: practice curriculum, pedagogies and personal epistemologies.  Practice curriculum involves to the kinds and sequencing of experiences that allow for learning through work. Practice pedagogies are the practices including interactions and activities that augment learning. Lastly, personal epistemologies are the means by which individuals direct their efforts in work and learning. These involve interdependent processes that arise between person social and physical circumstances, all of which support mimetic learning and work. 

Stephen Billett, Mimetic Learning at Work: Learning in the Circumstances of Practice (United States: Springer, 2014).