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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... argues that these standpoints are problematic at several levels, especially at the assumed levels of learner autonomy and intentionality (see Glossary). Powerful shaping influences, such as local organisational or site power relations ...
... argues Mezirow (1990), enables people to 're-frame' problems they may be experiencing, to realise that a particular situation can be defined and solved in many different ways. Informal learning, in contrast to formal education, is ...
... argues 'lifeworlds' may be better left alone rather than turned towards new capitalistic corporate endeavours. Indeed, 'should one adopt definite standpoints on informal learning?'. Or might this lead, as Usher What is informal learning ...
... argues from a critical/feminist perspective that the contemporary valuing of workplace knowledge through skills and competencies is 'oriented towards maintaining or restoring the economic status quo [and this] can undermine the critical ...
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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 |