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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... problematic in several ways: I don't think it is coincidental or 'natural' that we focus on certain things rather than others. Once we start analysing something, once we start making something the object of our investigations, we do so ...
... problematic at several levels, especially at the assumed levels of learner autonomy and intentionality (see Glossary). Powerful shaping influences, such as local organisational or site power relations, and more broadly industry ...
... problematic, at times binary, nature of worker and manager perceptions about the purposes of learning, and the discursive construction of its meanings. The complexity of learning at work is such that there are multiple answers to each ...
... problematic. 'Informal' learning may occur in each of these contexts and they are not mutually exclusive. Such technical definitions thus deny a 'boundarylessness' that can accompany informal learning. Marsick and Watkins also stress ...
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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 |