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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... sense of the turbulent postmodern and post-industrial conditions. Such hopes directly relate to how people learn from dealing with their daily experiences and dilemmas at work and the implications ofthis for their formal education and ...
... sense of a synthesis of opposing tendencies in the thesis and antithesis. Here the term 'dialectical' needs to be distinguished from the conventional Hegelian and Marxian usages of dialectic which would relate learning to a privileged ...
... sense of 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 ...
... sense (in Lee 1992: 10) is a particular way of organising meaning and hence of ordering the world. Different 'institutions' (forms of social organisation, such as workplaces) produce different discourses which set up positions for ...
... sense of their lives? These questions represent cultural forms that remind us of the reflexive nature of social life – that social life has the capacity to change as our knowledge and thinking changes. HR managers, practitioners and ...
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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 |