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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... work and how workplaces are being organised to 'facilitate' learning organisations. The various perspectives on work-based learning raise questions about the inextricable connection between learning at work and society. These are ...
... based 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 relations. Iargue in Chapter 2 that ...
... workers with their learning? Or are they managers of subtle technologies that help meet economically based objectives of the organisation? Why is it that informal learning is, at this particular moment, a focus of industry's gaze ...
... based. Yet HRD practices are set against a backdrop of postmodern conditions – globalisation, discourses of 'market penetration', deregulation, privatisation, marketisation, dispersal of authorities (and of knowledge formation) and the ...
... worker productivity. The changes include: • the introduction of competency-based standards for workers in most industries • a greater emphasis on training, work-based learning; experiential learning; and recognition of prior learning ...
Obsah
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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 |