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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... providing me with both a rich store of ideas and suggestions about how I might approach such an elusive subject, and key and timely references. Introduction The notion ofinformal learning has captured a great deal Acknowledgements.
... approach renders any findings vulnerable to attack from other approaches. This is symptomatic of a more general crisis of knowledge associated with the 'postmodern condition'. Debates over informal learning within the fields of practice ...
... approach is based on a 'human capital' theory of learning and posits 'action-reflection-action' as central to informal workplace learning. This perspective differs from the Freirean notion of action-reflection-action – which is a core ...
... approaches seeking to empower 'self-directed' learners. It is subject to the ensemble ofgovernment policy directions in VET and it is subject to the managerial discourses that pursue 'learning organisations'. In these ways, what is ...
... approach to using experience for learning will generate its own representations of experience and thus what is being constructed and recognised as 'learning'. Much of the writing on informal learning takes three main perspectives ...
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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 |