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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... self-direction, empowered workers and nonhierarchical work arrangements to design organisational 'culture'. These practices are, in this study, viewed as shapers of the informal learning of employees. They are discursive practices, and ...
... self-direction, learning organisations, and so on. Economic and instrumental rationality are at the heart of the knowledge frameworks associated with each of these discourses as they are applied in Western societies. Knowledge is prized ...
... self-regulation and dependency in the guise of worker 'empowerment' and 'self-direction'. Chapters 5 and 6 illustrate how these technologies can work. HRD practices are placed in a paradox by their intimate ties with the determining ...
... self-directed learner'. For Candy (1988: 160) a key element in self-direction is that informal learning 'occurs without participation in externally planned programs of instruction in the subject area concerned'. Marsick and Watkins ...
... self-directed learning, or where help is consciously sought from advisers, coaches or mentors. A key distinguishing feature in Marsick and Watkins' definition is therefore that informal learning is intentional, incidental learning is ...
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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 |