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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... meanings. It has to be considered allusively. To adopt a single, exclusive approach renders any findings vulnerable to attack from other approaches. This is symptomatic of a more general crisis of knowledge associated with the ...
... meanings than with the materiality of construction, although these are interrelated. For instance, material production today is characterised in many workplaces by e-mail networks, various computer and information technologies and ...
... meaning . . . for the world as well as for the “self”'. To address the dialectical relationship between the self and society and its inherent multiple meanings, I examine various theories about how we learn in the world of work and how ...
... meaning mediated, it is socially as well as personally constructed. Andresen, Boud and Cohen (1995) to an extent acknowledge this by arguing that learning is a 'holistic process', but the extent and effects on the person of the ...
... meanings. The complexity oflearning at work is such that there are multiple answers to each of the above questions – there is no overriding 'truth'. Here, however, it is the question of what shapes informal learning that is of ...
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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 |