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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... influenced in positive ways by David Boud, Bernard Cohen, Richard Edwards, Andrew Gonczi, Paul Hager, Denise Kirkpatrick, Alison Lee, Victoria Marsick, Kate Sumner, Mark Tennant and Philip Wexler. I wish to offer them my warm thanks for ...
... influences not always directly observable at any given site. And yet they are ever present. It is my hope that enhanced understandings ofinformal learning may lead in the longer term towards paths of qualitatively better work lives and ...
... influences, such as local organisational or site power relations, and more broadly industry discourses, cast doubt on the degree to which one should accept the notion of 'the learner's own appropriation of something which is to them ...
... influences of market economics on informal workplace learning and its growing links with formal education were not acknowledged. With the powerful influence of market economics on workplace learning and its purposes in mind, my ...
... influence 'incidental' learning. Separating informal and incidental learning seems to represent a false dichotomy ... influences and resources in his or her environment – from family and neighbours, from work and play, from the market ...
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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 |