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 can be 'utilised' to promote 'learning organisations' is challenged as this study shows how so-called democratic and participative workplaces are being 'framed' by an economistic human capital theory and a 'mercantilisation' of ...
... learning, or of its construction within the master discourse of economic rationalism. A principal challenge of this text is to animate critique of the convenient exploitation of the rhetoric of 'learning organisations'. This rhetoric ...
... learning into economic discourse. The connection between economics, workplace learning and education has been referred to ... organisations'. Unmasking underlying 'truths' about much of the language of contemporary education and training ...
... learning. Tensions between individuals and their workplaces raise many ... learning organisations. The various perspectives on work-based learning raise ... organisation, enterprise, workforce–indeed one's country–'more clever', are ...
... learning? Or are they managers of subtle technologies that help meet economically based objectives of the organisation? Why is it that informal learning is, at this particular moment, a focus of industry's gaze? Indeed, how is this text ...
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 |