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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... language in which desired human resource products are highly-trained, flexible and competent. It is the dominant language of 'human resource development', and has the backing of industry, governments and unions. The language of ...
... language. Considering the assumption that the market economy reflects 'human nature', any trust in the so-called market place to determine 'valid' knowledge would appear to any sceptic to be naive at best. Following Foucault's ...
... language which is prevalent in current industrial and workplace reforms. However, assumptions underlying economic imperatives should always be questioned. For instance, the widely accepted assertion that industry and workplace reforms ...
... language for workers having to accept additional responsibilities, perhaps having to work different (more extensive) hours, but being paid no more. This linking of skill formation and workplace reform to work-based learning has major ...
... language and are understood by us by our discursive frameworks' (Usher 1993: 169). This study is itself an example of a disciplined and systematic way of exploring informal learning. It discursively represents what informal learning ...
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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 |