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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... everyday work lives and corporate environments of several Human Resource Development managers and practitioners. They and their corporations must remain anonymous, but they have given generously of their time. Each knows their identity ...
... everyday contexts as part of day-to-day life, but it is also a key element of a discourse which has this everyday process as its 'subject'. As such, informal learning is constructed in certain ways. For example, it can be viewed as a ...
... everyday experience at work, exploring the effects of workplace practices on one's learning. I make two main assumptions about informal learning: that there are indeed rich sources of learning in day-to-day practice situations and that ...
... everyday so that their stories represent an intersection between discourses and lived realities: they speak the tensions. Their stories are discursively constructed at one level and they live them at another. Post-industrial ...
... everyday experience at work features several contextual questions. For instance, do HRD practitioners actually 'help' workers with their learning? Or are they managers of subtle technologies that help meet economically based objectives ...
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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 |