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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... contemporary society, the strategies of flexible accumulation and the pragmatic world oflabour markets should not be underestimated. The philosophy of experiential learning somewhat rests upon Kierkegaard, who wrote in his Journals: in ...
... Contemporary HRD knowledge frameworks are unashamedly linked to market economics. It is the master discourse of market economics which gives the cues to the sub-discourses of HRD practices: consultancies, re-engineering, downsizing ...
... contemporary epistemology of HRD practice is highly performance-based. Yet HRD practices are set against a backdrop of postmodern conditions – globalisation, discourses of 'market penetration', deregulation, privatisation, marketisation ...
... contemporary managerial discourse warrant problematising. A number of the contemporary definitions of 'informal learning' discussed in Chapter 1 owe a philosophical debt to Dewey's views on experience and education. He claimed that ...
... contemporary uses of informal learning are clearly located within broader discourses of economic, workplace and education reforms. The 'informalisation' of learning is associated with a 'vocationalising' of education, which, in turn, is ...
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15 | |
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 |