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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... market economics it is education that plays a critical, but secondary, role. With education in a secondary – albeit vital – position to economics at national policy levels, workplace learning and training are both constructed as ...
... market economics rules is worth noting. Indeed, a dramatic blind-spot would exist if the direct and indirect influences of market economics on informal workplace learning and its growing links with formal education were not acknowledged ...
... market economics at political and national policymaking levels appears to have reached a virtually unchallenged position in framing thought and action. What is constituting 'valid' knowledge is the direct and measurable link between ...
... market economics. The paradox rejects the principles of absolute reason and yet they are subject to the governing rules of market economics–rules which apply, at this historic moment, almost absolutely. Most advanced economies are ...
... economic subject. . . . The implication is for a deeply conservative education' (1993: 239). Teasing out the educational implications of linking market economics with educational goals is an important subtext of this book. At the level ...
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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 |