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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Unmasking Human Resource Development John Garrick. disturbing. For example, HRD knowledge and practices can be read as technologies of compliance and control – a techno-science that refines self-regulation and dependency in the guise of ...
... knowledge (Polanyi 1967; Inkster 1987) • reflection and critical reflection (Mezirow 1990; Boud and Walker 1992 – see Glossary) • enhancing informal and incidental learning (Freire 1972; Brookfield 1986; Marsick and Watkins 1990a). The ...
... knowledge from daily experience and the educative influences and resources in his or her environment – from family and neighbours, from work and play, from the market place, the library and the mass media. Non-formal education: any ...
... knowledge and skill development' (1990b: 32). Marsick and Watkins' contributions have influenced recent managerial and HRD discourses on informal learning in the workplace because their main focus is on ways to enhance informal and ...
... knowledge by simply interacting with other people or being present in a particular social context, and, as Aristotle pointed out, [this is] how we are educated into 'virtue' or moral behaviour. (Wain 1993: 63) For this text, particular ...
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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 |