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. |
Vyhľadávanie v obsahu knihy
... discourse of economic rationalism. A principal challenge of this text is to animate critique of the convenient ... discourse of 'competence'. In this discourse, the purpose of 'skills acquisition', including skills learned informally, is ...
... discourse. The connection between economics, workplace learning and education has been referred to variously by Barnett (1997), Burbules (1995), Casey (1995), Marginson (1997) and Usher and Edwards (1994). They note that in the ...
... discourse' (Foucault 1980; in Casey 1995: 13). The discursive practices of contemporary work are examined in this study through the stories of HRD practitioners who are caught in discourses which 'frame' their learning in very ...
... discourse.1 The dialectical relationship between the self and society, inherent in social action, is described by Lee (1992:7) as 'a complex process of negotiating a pathway through the circulating discourses which produce the ...
... discourse about human experience that is inseparable from power relations. Iargue in Chapter 2 that influential ... discourses, cast doubt on the degree to which one should accept the notion of 'the learner's own appropriation of ...
Obsah
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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 |