Article 2011

The metaphor of therapy and its use in the learning of a workplace identity

Journal of Vocational Education and Training
Journal · Vol. 63 · Issue 4 · pp. 619-628
Abstract

The idea that learning involves a kind of therapy goes back to ancient times: Socrates was, at least in part, concerned with a kind of care of the self, and Plato in his early dialogues presents learning as a cure for bad intellectual and moral habits. Our metaphoric use of therapy supposes that worthwhile learning might be considered as a treatment for moral or physical non-well-being in that learning, like illness, might most easily be identified with a desire for good. © 2011 Copyright The Vocational Aspect of Education Ltd.

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workplace learning pedagogy adult learning philosophy of VET vet and development

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Institute for Work Based Learning, Middlesex University, London, United Kingdom
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