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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... 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 workers themselves. A close examination of the industrial ...
... production . . . and functioning of a discourse' (Foucault 1980; in Casey 1995: 13). The discursive practices of ... production today is characterised in many workplaces by e-mail networks, various computer and information technologies ...
... produce the possibility of meaning . . . for the world as well as for the “self”'. To address the dialectical relationship between the self and society and its inherent multiple meanings, I examine various theories about how we learn in ...
... concerns centre on 'the production of competencies' or of people as simply 'human capital' (1993: 239). The alignment of educational goals with market economics is seen by What is informal learning in the workplace? 7.
... production that constitutes it. This distinction is important to this book. It has a direct bearing on how managerial, HRD and education practices related to informal learning are formulated and implemented, raising critical questions ...
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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 |