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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... Understanding Learning at Work and Flexible Learning and Human Resource Development: Putting Theory into Practice, Routledge (forthcoming). Informal Learning in the Workplace Unmasking human resource development John.
... understandings of the parameters of informal learning reveal masks of disguise worn by contemporary 'learning organisations'. Unmasking underlying 'truths' about much of the language of contemporary education and training reform thus ...
... understandings of informal learning may lead in the longer term towards paths of qualitatively better work lives and, in the shorter term, analyses that help make sense of the turbulent postmodern and post-industrial conditions. Such ...
... understandings of power. Critical theory (before Foucault) tended to conceive of societal construction as a composite of economic, cultural and psychological activities. Post-structuralism, however, abandons the idea of universals ...
... understanding a person's informal learning. Tensions between individuals and their workplaces raise many questions about the intersubjective nature of human discourse.1 The dialectical relationship between the self and society, inherent ...
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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 |