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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... industrial workplaces. Many workplaces now seek to harness its productive potentials. Industry managers and human resource development (HRD) practitioners are attempting to deploy it in the 'design' of corporate cultures. In the ...
... industries by promoting more highly-skilled, more highly-trained, workers. Informal learning thus becomes part of the discourse of 'competence'. In this discourse, the purpose of 'skills acquisition', including skills learned informally ...
... industrial relations. This is particularly so within production-oriented industries. This text does not attempt to argue why this may or may not be economically justified. Rather, a counter-argument emerges through the stories of ...
... industry, and in education communities, may have hoped. Indeed, an aim of this book is to expand debate both about ... industrial conditions. Such hopes directly relate to how people learn from dealing with their daily experiences and ...
... industrial contexts. It focuses primarily on 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 ...
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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 |