Informal Learning in the Workplace: Unmasking Human Resource DevelopmentInformal 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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Informal learning has become 'useful' in our post-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 ...
Their reflections on their own stories, and then on my analyses of those stories,
enabled me to generate the theoretical hypotheses and the resulting insights into
informal workplace learning. I would like to thank especially Robin Usher and ...
There is an increasing volume of published works representing, amongst others,
postmodern, critical, interpretive and positivist perspectives. Informal learning is
such a powerful and elusive phenomenon, however, that no one perspective can
...
(Zygmunt Bauman 1993:3) Introduction This book examines informal learning in
various industrial contexts. It focuses primarily on everyday experience at work,
exploring the effects of workplace practices on one's learning. I make two main ...
Some prevalent definitions of informal learning There is a silence about the
power of discourse to delineate the sayable about informal learning. In writing
about 'it' I highlight those features of the subject that are constructed by the
circulating ...
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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 |
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| Názov | Informal Learning in the Workplace: Unmasking Human Resource Development |
| Autor | John Garrick |
| Vydanie | ilustrované |
| Vydavateľ | Routledge, 2012 |
| Kód ISBN | 1134667213, 9781134667215 |
| Dĺžka | 224 strán (strany) |
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