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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... informal learning into economic discourse. The connection between economics, workplace learning and education has been referred to variously by Barnett (1997), Burbules (1995), Casey (1995), Marginson (1997) and Usher and Edwards (1994) ...
... learning. As an educational concept, informal learning appears less suitable for competency-based assessment than many strategic planners in industry, and in education communities, may have hoped. Indeed, an aim of this book is to ...
... informal learning in various industrial contexts. It focuses primarily on everyday experience at work, exploring the effects of workplace practices on one's learning. I make two main assumptions about informal learning: that there are ...
... informal learning. Tensions between individuals and their workplaces raise many questions about the intersubjective nature of human discourse.1 The dialectical relationship between the self and ... informal learning in the workplace? 3.
... learning' is being promoted as a valid form of knowledge acquisition. 'Talk' about work-based learning is thus in the terms of a discourse about human experience that is inseparable from power ... informal learning in the workplace?
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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 |