This paper draws on Jean-François Lyotard's (1984) seminal study "The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge" to reflect on two macro-level catastrophes: the global financial crisis (GFC) of 2009 (and its continuing effects throughout the Eurozone and elsewhere) and Fukushima. These two case studies probe aspects of these grand…

Cites the limits of organizational learning and proposes finding insights from postmodern thinking to redefine it. Explores the postmodern strategy of deconstruction as a method that induces a more critically reflective approach to learning at work. (SK)

Although postmodernism suggests multiple realities, the predominant view of workplace learning is that realities are explainable in terms of competency-based standards, uniform syllabi, and narrow beliefs about how learning should be managed and measured. These practices are linked with image, market share, power, and control in enterprises. (SK)

An interpretive study of two practitioners on construction sites uses postmodern and critical perspectives as counterpoints. The study investigated why informal learning is a current focus in human resource development, how informal learning is defined, and contested notions of industrial relations and training. (SK)

This book examines the rhetoric surrounding the notion of informal learning in order to expand debate about the uses of informal learning in workplaces and about attempts to "recognize" it through competency-based standards. The following topics are among those discussed in the book's eight chapters: (1) the nature of informal learning…