A refusal to define HRD

This article argues that, although at times it is necessary to define HRD for political reasons, there is a strong case that HRD should not be defined on philosophical, theoretical and practical grounds. To proffer definitions of HRD is to misrepresent it as a thing of being rather than a process of becoming . Defining the field also runs the risk of disengaging from the moral dimension of HRD.

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