Preston, John (2017) Competence Based Education and Training (CBET) and the end of human learning: the existential threat of competency. Palgrave Macmillan. Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55110-4
Preston, John (2017) Competence Based Education and Training (CBET) and the end of human learning: the existential threat of competency. Palgrave Macmillan. Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55110-4
Preston, John (2017) Competence Based Education and Training (CBET) and the end of human learning: the existential threat of competency. Palgrave Macmillan. Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55110-4
Abstract
This book radically counters the optimism sparked by Competence Based Education and Training, an educational philosophy that has re-emerged in Schooling, Vocational and Higher Education in the last decade. CBET supposedly offers a new type of learning that will lead to skilled employment; here, Preston instead presents the competency movement as one which makes the concept of human learning redundant. Starting with its origins in Taylorism, the slaughterhouse and radical behaviourism, the book charts the history of competency education to its position as a global phenomenon today, arguing that competency is opposed to ideas of process, causality and analog human movement that are fundamental to human learning.
Item Type: | Book |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Education |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology L Education > L Education (General) |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 11 Jan 2018 12:24 |
Last Modified: | 23 Sep 2022 19:21 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/21078 |