This book addresses issues confronting universities' attempts to integrate practice-based learning in higher education curriculum, yet which reveals the jostling of cultures which exist within and amongst the academy, industry, government and professional bodies and other educational providers. The book engages theory in practices, and draws upon research highlighting the issues and transactions that emerge with implementation of work integrated learning arrangements as uses these resources to discuss and develop further both theoretical premises and procedural contributions. The illustrative...
This book addresses issues confronting universities' attempts to integrate practice-based learning in higher education curriculum, yet which reveals t...
This book generates a comprehensive account of ways in which practice-based learning has been conceptualized in the Francophone context. This focus on learning through work has long been emphasised in the Francophone world, which has developed distinct traditions and conceptions of associations between work and learning.
This book generates a comprehensive account of ways in which practice-based learning has been conceptualized in the Francophone context. This focus on...
Such imperatives are reflected in the cooperative education movement in North America, the foundation degree programs of the United Kingdom, the work integrated learning approach within Australian higher education and initiatives in a range of other countries.
Such imperatives are reflected in the cooperative education movement in North America, the foundation degree programs of the United Kingdom, the work ...
This book discusses how the Dutch vocational education system has undergone significant waves of reform driven by global imperatives, national concerns and governmental policy goals. Like elsewhere, the impetuses for these reforms are directed to generating a more industry-responsive, locally-accountable and competence-based vocational education system. Each wave of reforms, however, has had particular emphases, and directed to achieve particular policy outcomes. Yet, they are more than mere versions of what had or is occurring elsewhere. They are shaped by specific national imperatives,...
This book discusses how the Dutch vocational education system has undergone significant waves of reform driven by global imperatives, national conc...
Stephen Billett Barbara Elisabeth Stalder Vibe Aarkrog
This book addresses what is, perhaps, the single most important issue for vocational education; its relatively low standing in an era of high aspiration. The work explores the nature, extent and consequences for an educational sector that whilst having an increasingly important role in contemporary societies is seen to be of low standing across both countries with developed and developing economies.Some of the standing is associated with the occupation it serves and this is highlighted in an era of high aspiration by young people and their parents. The consequences are far-reaching. This...
This book addresses what is, perhaps, the single most important issue for vocational education; its relatively low standing in an era of high aspirati...
