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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... environment: unmasking the language of HRD 38 4 The hidden curriculum of learning at work 60 5 Professional identity and self-regulation at work 81 6 The performativity principle in informal learning 101 7 Retheorising informal ...
... environments of several Human Resource Development managers and practitioners. They and their corporations must remain anonymous, but they have given generously of their time. Each knows their identity within the text and I wish first ...
... environments. Contemporary views which increasingly seek to link 'the person' to work-productivity fail miserably to play with the tropes of irony, tragedy and parody – elements so important to learning. This in turn leads to the ...
... environment or context' (1990: 1). Informal learning is often distinguished from other kinds of learning by the fact that 'it is non-intentional' (Wain 1987: 48) as against formal learning, which refers to intentionally constructed ...
... environment – from family and neighbours, from work and play, from the market place, the library and the mass media. Non-formal education: any organisational activity outside the established formal system, What is informal learning in ...
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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 |