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Learning for organizational effectiveness: Philosophy of education and human resource development
Author(s) -
Barrie John,
Wayne Pace R.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
human resource development quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.756
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1532-1096
pISSN - 1044-8004
DOI - 10.1002/hrdq.3920090105
Subject(s) - parallels , epistemology , human resources , sociology , field (mathematics) , resource (disambiguation) , knowledge management , philosophy of education , common ground , cognitive science , engineering ethics , psychology , management , higher education , philosophy , political science , computer science , engineering , communication , mechanical engineering , computer network , mathematics , pure mathematics , economics , law
This article explores some of the relationships between two fields of discourse—philosophy of education and human resource development. From the first field, the concepts of education and training are analyzed within a broad liberal education paradigm. The article argues that there is some common conceptual ground between the two concepts but also that significant differences between the two means that they cannot be seen as coterminous or equivalent. In light of this discussion, the article then draws some parallels with the performance and learning paradigms in human resource development (HRD), arguing that the learning paradigm is conceptually richer and more comprehensive than the performance paradigm.