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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... conceptions and uses of the term. There has been little critique about the uses ofinformal learning, or ofits construction within the master discourse of economic rationalism. A principal challenge of this text is to animate critique of ...
... conceive of societal construction as a composite of economic, cultural and psychological activities. Post-structuralism, however, abandons the idea ofuniversals, holisms and composites,. 1. What. is. informal. learning. in. the. 1 What is ...
... conception of 'reality', one's 'experience', is not simply a 'given', and can never be read as unproblematic. As Usher and Edwards argue: there is no single ordered view of the world to be imparted, but multiple 'realities' to be ...
... conception of the optimum path to transferable work-based learning will inevitably posit higher order cognitive functions as a 'truth' about experience. This discursively produces experience in a very particular (scientific) way. It is ...
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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 |