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Informal learning in corporate workplaces

✍ Scribed by John Garrick

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1998
Tongue
English
Weight
990 KB
Volume
9
Category
Article
ISSN
1044-8004

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✦ Synopsis

This article examines the informal loarning of two principal HRD practitioners working a t the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games construction sites, highlighting tensions between individual experience and the workplace. The article is based on a n interpretive study in which findings are "counterpointed" by postmodern and critical perspectives. Key questions include these: Why is informal learning, at this particular moment, a n important researchfocus in HRD? What are the problems of defining informal learning? How does one learn informally, and what aflects it? The article concludes by rethinking informal learning and discussing implicationsforfuture HRD research and practice.

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