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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... Marsick and Watkins (1990a) hypothesised that informal and incidental learning may become much more prominent in the workplace. And this is true – it has. Yet we know only fragments of what such terms actually encompass. It is with this ...
... Marsick and Watkins 1990a). The way one talks about informal learning begins to construct What is informal learning in the workplace? 9.
... Marsick and Watkins reiterate this theme, suggesting informal (and incidental) learning happens: 'outside formally ... Marsick and Watkins (1990a), distinct from incidental learning. Marsick and Watkins' (1990a) distinctions between ...
... Marsick and Watkins, who define 'incidental learning' as: 'a by-product of some other activity such as sensing the organisational culture, or trial and error experimentation' (1990a:8). As such, incidental learning is not planned or ...
... Marsick and Watkins also stress the distinction between informal learning and non-formal education, pointing out 'non-formal is where education is difficult to access and frequently tied to social class; non-formal education is often ...
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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 |