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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... of attention in recent years. There is an increasing volume of published works representing, amongst others, postmodern ... ofthe discourse of 'competence'. In this discourse, the purpose of 'skills acquisition', including skills learned ...
... of individuals. The subtle power ofthe informal suggests that there are more radical ways ofviewing informal learning and work as learning environments. Contemporary views which increasingly seek to link 'the person' to work ...
... of the policing process' (Hutton 1988: 135). For Foucault, theories ofthe self are a kind ofcurrency through which power over the mind is defined and extended. Whereas Freud sought to explain how knowledge gives us power over the self ...
... of 'experiential learning'. The distinguishing feature of experiential learning according to Andresen, Boud and Cohen (1995), is that the experience ofthe learner occupies the central place in all considerations ofteaching and learning ...
... of knowing are immersed in discourses, power relations and local networks. The comfortable cohabitation of the valuing of ... ofthe organisation? Why is it that informal learning is, at this particular moment, a focus ofindustry's gaze ...
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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 |
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 |