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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... questions are raised than are answered. And the stories in this text demonstrate the complexities inherent in informal learning. As an educational concept, informal learning appears less suitable for competency-based assessment than ...
... 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 learning in the past ten years. Yet they ...
... questions. For instance, do HRD practitioners actually 'help' workers with their learning? Or are they managers of subtle technologies that help meet economically based objectives ofthe organisation? Why is it that informal learning is ...
... question posed by Usher (1993: 169) helps clarify this concern, asking 'is there a difference between learning from experience and experiential learning?' He claims that learning from experience happens in everyday contexts and is ...
... or moral issues which underpin questions such as 'what ought one to do' in the maze of workplace activities and dilemmas. This is in part why Wain distinguishes informal learning 12 What is informal learning in the workplace?
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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 |