Bootcamps : a new path for occupational entry
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation utilizes a unique setting—coding bootcamps—to examine how workers attempt to reskill themselves for growing job areas without traditional organizations serving as the backdrop for their actions. I draw on 80 semi-structured interviews and observations conducted at two bootcamps in Silicon Valley over the course of 17 months of fieldwork. My findings suggest that bootcamps resembled learning collectives where self-learning and learning from peers and near-peers figured more prominently than expert instruction. Under conditions of minimal expert instruction and obstacles to legitimate peripheral participation, I show how aspiring software developers sought out an occupational community in virtual spaces, learned asynchronously from unknown others, developed their practice through mock work among themselves and managed to get hired as a new category of occupational entrant—the bootcamp graduate. This dissertation contributes to our understanding of employability management practices and under-institutionalized learning and socialization processes in contemporary careers.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2019; ©2019 |
| Publication date | 2019; 2019 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Kaynak, Fatma Ece |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Barley, Stephen R |
| Degree supervisor | Valentine, Melissa (Melissa A.) |
| Thesis advisor | Barley, Stephen R |
| Thesis advisor | Valentine, Melissa (Melissa A.) |
| Thesis advisor | Ferguson, John-Paul |
| Thesis advisor | Ranganathan, Aruna |
| Degree committee member | Ferguson, John-Paul |
| Degree committee member | Ranganathan, Aruna |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Management Science and Engineering. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Fatma Ece Kaynak. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Management Science and Engineering. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2019. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2019 by Fatma Ece Kaynak
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