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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... providing me with both a rich store of ideas and suggestions about how I might approach such an elusive subject, and key and timely references. Introduction The notion of informal learning has captured a great Acknowledgements.
... notion of 'informal learning'. It is being used by state authorities in reforms of national training and accreditation systems and processes. National training reforms are seeking more 'competitive' industries by promoting more highly ...
... leaving something unsaid. The unsaid relates to what falls outside the discourses that enable analyses of informal learning. This represents a problem for the development of richer notions of informal learning. Many more x Introduction.
Unmasking Human Resource Development John Garrick. the development of richer notions of informal learning. Many more questions are raised than are answered. And the stories in this text demonstrate the complexities inherent in informal ...
... notion. It is deeply problematised by some writers such as Derrida (1982) and Lyotard (1984). Rorty (1989) and Aronowitz (1992) say 'the self is a convenient 'modern' fiction contingent upon innumerable forces and identity processes ...
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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 |