1st Edition
Informal Learning in the Workplace Unmasking Human Resource Development
By John Garrick
Copyright 1998
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Chapter 1 What is informal learning in the workplace?; Chapter 2 Theorising informal learning; Chapter 3 Work as a learning environment; Chapter 4 The hidden curriculum of learning at work; Chapter 5 Professional identity and self-regulation at work; Chapter 6 The performativity principle in informal learning; Chapter 7 Retheorising informal workplace learning; Chapter 8 Doubts about postmodern doubt;
Biography
John Garrick is a senior researcher and policy analyst at the Research Centre for Vocational Education and Training at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. He is co-editor of Understanding Learning at Work and Flexible Learning and Human Resource Development: Putting Theory into Practice, Routledge (forthcoming).
