Human Resource Development as Adult Education: Fostering the Educative Workplace

Human Resource Development as Adult Education: Fostering the Educative Workplace

Human resource development has been framed within a market model with economic aims and purposes. Reconceptualizing it as a form of adult education, which has a democratic and social justice tradition, can better serve an emerging participatory, democratic workplace. (SK)

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Published in:New directions for continuing education no. 72; p. 41
Main Author: Dirkx, John M
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: 1996
Subjects:
Adult Education
Democracy
Educational Philosophy
Free Enterprise System
Human Resources
Labor Force Development
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Summary:Human resource development has been framed within a market model with economic aims and purposes. Reconceptualizing it as a form of adult education, which has a democratic and social justice tradition, can better serve an emerging participatory, democratic workplace. (SK)
ISSN:0195-2242