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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... stories' that challenge assumptions about corporate uses of informal learning and its alignment with competency-based training. Being at work entails far more than simply performing the tasks one is required to do, and in turn, affects ...
... stories, and then on my analyses of those stories, enabled me to generate the theoretical hypotheses and the resulting insights into informal workplace learning. I would like to thank especially Robin Usher and Nicky Solomon who have ...
... stories of workers themselves. A close examination of the industrial contexts of the stories, and the emergence of clearer understandings of the parameters of informal learning reveal masks of disguise worn by contemporary 'learning ...
... stories in this text demonstrate the complexities inherent in informal learning. As an educational concept, informal learning appears less suitable for competency-based assessment than many strategic planners in industry, and in ...
... stories represent an intersection between discourses and lived realities: they speak the tensions. Their stories are discursively constructed at one level and they live them at another. Post-industrial corporations now use communication ...
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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 |