
Learning Through Practice
Models, Traditions, Orientations and Approaches
By: Stephen Billett (Editor)
Hardcover | 17 June 2010
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Long-standing practice-based approaches to learning have been used in many professions and trades. Indeed, admission to the trades and major professions (e.g. medicine, law, accountancy) can only be realised after completing extended periods of practice in authentic practice settings. However, the growing contemporary interest in using practice-based learning in more extensive contexts has arisen from concerns about the direct employability of graduates and the increasing focus on occupation-specific courses in both vocations and higher education. It is an especially urgent issue in an era of critical skill shortages, rapidly transforming work requirements and an aging workforce combined with a looming shortage of new workforce entrants. We must better understand how existing models of practice-based learning are enacted in order to identify how they can be applied to different kinds of employment and workplaces. The contributions to this volume explore ways in which learning through practice can be conceptualised, enacted, and appraised through an analysis of the traditions, purposes, and processes that support this learning-including curriculum models and pedagogic practices.
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"Aim of this book is to provide an overview of how learning through practice can be conceptionalised, enacted and appraised. ... Those who have tended to focus on teacher education as an example of workplace learning will find wide range of contexts discussed here to be stimulating." (Michael Hammond, Teacher Development, October, 2011)ISBN: 9789048139385
ISBN-10: 9048139384
Series: Professional and Practice-based Learning
Published: 17th June 2010
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 310
Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publisher: Springer Nature B.V.
Country of Publication: NL
Dimensions (cm): 23.5 x 23.5 x 2.54
Weight (kg): 0.61
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