Informal Learning in the Workplace: Unmasking Human Resource DevelopmentRoutledge, 6. 12. 2012 - 224 strán (strany) Informal learning has become an extremely important issue as post-industrial workplaces seek to harness its productive potential. Managers and HRD practitioners have attempted to deploy informal learning in the design of corporate cultures, however, most discussions of the subject have tended to be uncritical expositions which do not challenge the underlying economic, philosophical and organisational rationale. Uniquely, this book goes against this tendency. It critically examines definitions of informal learning, and focuses on its application in a variety of workplace contexts. It features: * theories of informal learning Incorporating case studies based on interviews with practising managers and HRM practitioners, and a detailed glossary of key concepts and issues, this book will be a valuable reference for students of workplace learning. |
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... construction within the master discourse of economic rationalism. A principal challenge of this text is to animate critique of the convenient exploitation of the rhetoric of 'learning organisations'. This rhetoric seeks fully to utilise ...
... construction (of a subject) can be problematic in several ways: I don't think it is coincidental or 'natural' that we focus on certain things rather than others. Once we start analysing something, once we start making something the ...
... construction as a composite of economic, cultural and psychological activities. Post-structuralism, however, abandons the idea of universals, holisms and. 1. What. is. informal. learning. in. the. 1 What is informal learning in the ...
... construction of meanings than with the materiality of construction, although these are interrelated. For instance, material production today is characterised in many workplaces by e-mail networks, various computer and information ...
... construction of its meanings. The complexity of learning at work is such that there are multiple answers to each of the above questions – there is no overriding 'truth'. Here, however, it is the question of what shapes informal learning ...
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2 Theorising informal learning | 15 |
Unmasking the language of HRD | 38 |
4 The hidden curriculum of learning at work | 60 |
5 Professional identity and selfregulation at work | 81 |
6 The performativity principle in informal learning | 101 |
7 Retheorising informal workplace learning | 124 |
Postscript | 151 |
The research methods | 161 |
Glossary | 169 |
Bibliography | 182 |
Index | 199 |
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Informal Learning in the Workplace: Unmasking Human Resource Development John Garrick Obmedzený náhľad - 2012 |
Informal Learning in the Workplace: Unmasking Human Resource Development John Garrick Obmedzený náhľad - 1998 |
Informal Learning in the Workplace: Unmasking Human Resource Development John Garrick Obmedzený náhľad - 1998 |