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. |
Vyhľadávanie v obsahu knihy
Výsledky 1 - 5 z 34.
... competency-based standards. A significant part ofthis project is to interpret the reflexive moments, the 'internal dialogues' of workers engaged in their daily operations. Clearly, informal learning involves engagement among persons and ...
... skills, and knowledge by simply interacting with other people or being present in a particular social context, and ... competency-based standards?' 'Should “recognised” informal learning be accompanied by correlative new reward systems ...
... competency-based standards. There is therefore a discourse of informal learning that intersects with those government and industry discourses seeking an alignment between industry demands for efficiencies and productivity, and education ...
... competency-based standards, or the recognition of particular competencies attained, are generally given virtually no weight. I am also discursively representing what informal learning might encompass and thus what might be excluded. The ...
... requirements. Observable skills and competencies are made 'present' through direct accounting for everyday learning ... competency-based approaches to learning at work is that professional and personal identity, gender relations and ...
Obsah
1 | |
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 |
Iné vydania - Zobraziť všetky
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 |