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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... formal learning' which they characterise as being university or college studies; short professional training courses; or externally planned programmes ofinstruction. Mocker and Spear also distinguish between informal and formal learning ...
... learning' literature, exemplify this shortcoming: Formal education: the hierarchically structured, chronologically graded 'education system', running from primary schools through the university and including, in addition to general ...
Unmasking Human Resource Development John Garrick. Non-formal education: any organisational activity outside the established formal system, whether operating separately or as an important feature of some broader activity, that is ...
... learning from formal and non-formal learning on the basis that it is unintended by the learner, asserting that: it is easily demonstrable that people pick up attitudes, values, skills, and knowledge by simply interacting with other ...
... formal education system. This may sound a dramatic claim, but contemporary uses of informal learning are clearly located within broader discourses of economic, workplace and education reforms. The 'informalisation' of learning is ...
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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 |