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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... individuals to learn more 'efficiently and effectively' in their day-to-day work. The debates have not substantially challenged existing definitions, conceptions and uses of the term. There has been little critique about the uses of ...
... individuals. The subtle power of the informal suggests that there are more radical ways of viewing informal learning and work as learning environments. Contemporary views which increasingly seek to link 'the person' to work-productivity ...
... individual as constituted by power, and the relations of power cannot be 'established, consolidated nor implemented without the production . . . and functioning of a discourse' (Foucault 1980; in Casey 1995: 13). The discursive ...
... individuals and their workplaces raise many questions about the intersubjective nature of human discourse.1 The dialectical relationship between the self and society, inherent in social action, is described by Lee (1992:7) as 'a complex ...
... individual experience, this subtext relates to how workers actually become (or are made) more flexible. Rainbird for one, notes that in many instances: the process of learning the skills required for a new job occurs informally, through ...
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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 |