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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... important to this book. It has a direct bearing on how managerial, HRD and education practices related to informal learning are formulated and implemented, raising critical questions: 'Should informal learning be structured or organised ...
... learned informally at particular work sites can be 'seen', rendered 'visible', 'utilised' in the desired government and corporate ways. Why has informal learning become so important? Informal learning fits 16 Theorising informal learning.
... important insights into the intersubjective character of human discourse, the 'big' factors, being given pre-eminence, or not sufficiently taken into consideration, depending on one's perspective. Adult learning literature for instance ...
... important discourse at this particular historic moment?'. In the following sections ofthis chapter I will briefly consider the underlying assumptions ofthese perspectives. These sections are: the prevailing views of informal learning ...
... has been learnt from experience. The notion one holds of 'subjectivity' is important here. As Heidegger1 puts it: knowledge and understanding are not the product of deliberate, conscious Theorising informal learning 19.
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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 |