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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... contemporary corporate language • the implications for accounts of workplace learning of poststructuralist and postmodern perspectives • case studies based on interviews with practising managers and HRM practitioners • a detailed ...
... contemporary organisational development, this design is to make enterprises more innovative and competitive. This book critically examines definitions of informal learning, focusing on the term's application in various workplace ...
... contemporary 'learning organisations'. Unmasking underlying 'truths' about much of the language of contemporary education and training reform thus seems to be a worthwhile project. Informal learning happens in everyday contexts as part ...
... Contemporary views which increasingly seek to link 'the person' to work-productivity fail miserably to play with the tropes of irony, tragedy and parody – elements so important to learning. This in turn leads to the failure to hear the ...
... contemporary work are examined in this study through the stories of HRD practitioners who are caught in discourses which 'frame' their learning in very particular ways, for instance as 'competence'. At the same time they experience ...
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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 |