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
... effects of workplace practices on one's learning. I make two main assumptions about informal learning: that there are indeed rich sources of learning in day-to-day practice situations and that what is learned from experience is dynamic ...
... effects on working selves are described systematically. I am more interested in the construction of meanings than with the materiality of construction, although these are interrelated. For instance, material production today is ...
... effects are significant within managerial practices, workplace reforms, organisational theory, the sociology of organisations, systems theory, adult education and training. Notwithstanding such powerful effects, this new discourse can ...
... effects on the person of the discontinuity of contemporary society, the strategies of flexible accumulation and the pragmatic world of labour markets should not be underestimated. The philosophy of experiential learning somewhat rests ...
... effect of positing 'informal' as something left over from the formal. Indeed, a standard objection to the inclusion of informal learning within formal education is that informal learning has the potential to render the term 'education ...
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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 |