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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... perspectives • case studies based on interviews with practising managers and HRM practitioners • a detailed glossary of key concepts and issues. John Garrick is a senior researcher and policy analyst at the Research Centre for ...
... perspectives. Informal learning is such a powerful and elusive phenomenon, however, that no one perspective can capture its range of meanings. It has to be considered allusively. To adopt a single, exclusive approach renders any ...
... resist work purposes and industrial practices. There are important ethical directions and purposes in this, but they will not please everyone. workplace? 'The postmodern perspective' to which this study refers means Introduction xi.
Unmasking Human Resource Development John Garrick. workplace? 'The postmodern perspective' to which this study refers means above all the tearing off of the mask of illusions; the recognition of certain pretences as false and certain ...
... perspectives on work-based learning raise questions about the inextricable connection between learning at work and society. These are questions which should have been central to the massive growth in writing and research on work-based ...
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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 |