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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... 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 the links between informal learning and formal education. The ...
... education communities, may have hoped. Indeed, an aim of this book is to ... education and learning-at-work, bridges which, to a significant degree, centre on ... formal education and training. The development of new views about informal ...
... learning and its growing links with formal education were not acknowledged. With the powerful influence of market economics on workplace learning and its purposes in mind, my examination of everyday experience at work features several ...
... learning; experiential learning; and recognition of prior learning • demands from government, business and trade unions for 'greater relevance' of formal tertiary education courses to industry requirements. Alone, each of these points ...
... learning the skills required for a new job occurs informally, through one person training another . . . and that new skills are being acquired without the legitimation of a formal training period. . . . Although the scope of a job is ...
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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 |