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 issue as postindustrial workplaces seek to harness its productive potential. Managers and human resource development practitioners have attempted to deploy informal learning in the design of corporate cultures. However, most ...
... important to learning. This in turn leads to the failure to hear the voices of difference and other influences not always directly observable at any given site. And yet they are ever present. It is my hope that enhanced understandings ...
... important subtext of this book. At the level of individual experience, this subtext relates to how workers actually become (or are made) more flexible. Rainbird for one, notes that in many instances: the process of learning the skills ...
... important. Once informal learning is objectified, classified and measured it is also being, in some ways, reduced. Definitions of a term such as informal learning thus become a site of tension for the study; one of its problematics ...
... important feature of some broader activity, that is intended to serve identifiable learning clienteles and learning objectives. (Wain 1987:51) Here the formal and non-formal focus is on institutional structures, whilst the focus of the ...
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2 Theorising informal learning | 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 |