Published:Professional and Practice-based Learning
(2017)
In this chapter, competence-based education (CBE) will be studied from the perspective of the curriculum. We will give an overview of what CBE entails, and review current practice and research on the status quo of CBE in Dutch VET. For this, we shall use peer-reviewed research and more practical, so…
Published:Professional and Practice-based Learning
(2017)
In this chapter, we revisit some key insights into how the social, the material and the embodied enter professional work and learning. We argue that knowledge work and knowledgeable action are constitutively entangled with embodied practices in the material and social worlds. We show how matter matt…
Published:Professional and Practice-based Learning
(2017)
This chapter introduces the Dutch vocational education system and aims to foster an understanding of how it currently works. It describes and discusses the features of this system and the foundational issues that underlie it. Patterns of participation show the crucial position of vocational educatio…
Published:Professional and Practice-based Learning
(2016)
There are growing national and global policy focuses as well as local concerns about lifelong learning, particularly as it pertains to working life. Yet, at the commencement of this book, it is important to capture some key precepts through what comprises these concerns and how they can be understoo…
Published:Professional and Practice-based Learning
(2016)
There is a growing need for a comprehensive and informed account of how learning across working life can be conceptualised, its range of purposes outlined, and processes supporting that learning understood. Consensus exists across governments and supra-national agencies, spokespersons for industry, …
Published:Professional and Practice-based Learning
(2016)
This chapter provides a detailed overview of contemporary sociomaterial and practice-based approaches, focusing in particular on their implications for conceiving workplace learning. It lays the theoretical foundations for the analysis and arguments developed in Parts II and III. It sets out an onto…
Published:Professional and Practice-based Learning
(2016)
In this chapter, we aim at synthesizing several of our studies that investigated processes, practices, and conditions of nurses’ learning at work related to the occurrence of errors. Dealing with errors in a learning-oriented way has been subject to intensive debate in health care. Researchers have …
Published:Professional and Practice-based Learning
(2015)
In its various forms and across its different sectors (i.e. primary, secondary, tertiary), the project of education is essentially about the provision of experiences from which students are intended to learn particular kinds of outcomes (i.e. knowledge). These outcomes can be focused on specific con…
Published:Professional and Practice-based Learning
(2015)
As noted in earlier chapters, there is growing interest in providing higher education students with experiences in practice settings and then integrating them within educational programs. Now, that workplace experiences are becoming a component of a wide array of higher education programs, the inter…
Published:Professional and Practice-based Learning
(2015)
To position a consideration of the development of occupational-specific capacities and the use and integration of practice-based experiences within higher education, it is necessary to review what constitutes the purposes of higher education, both contemporaneously and also perennially. This chapter…
Published:Professional and Practice-based Learning
(2015)
This chapter presents a set of key findings from the fellowship projects that inform considerations for how the organisation, enactment and experiencing of practice-based experiences can be utilised and integrated within higher education programs. Eight propositions are initially advanced relating t…
Published:Professional and Practice-based Learning
(2015)
This chapter examines the conceptualisation of work activity that forms the foundation of Francophone perspectives on training and work and reviews empirical work grounded in these perspectives. It commences by identifying and discussing three fundamental assumptions about the nature of work activit…
Published:Professional and Practice-based Learning
(2015)
The collection of papers that comprise this edited monograph addresses issues confronting universities’ attempts to integrate practice-based learning in higher education curriculum. It is through accounts and analyses of activities that the kinds and extents of this jostling of cultures within and a…
Published:Professional and Practice-based Learning
(2015)
The integration of practice-based learning experiences in higher education is somewhat problematic—traditional ideas about what knowledge is, where is resides, how it is justified and its relative certainty and simplicity are at odds with the notions of practice-based knowledge. Practice-based knowl…
Published:Professional and Practice-based Learning
(2015)
The purpose of this chapter is to outline the range of specific educational purposes for providing and integrating practice-based experiences in higher education programs. In preview, it is proposed that these purposes can be categorised as those associated with three educational concerns. These are…
Published:Professional and Practice-based Learning
(2015)
This chapter identifies contributions of Francophone traditions and conceptions of learning through work and learning for work and the practices deployed to understand more fully these processes of learning. It identifies and elaborates from an Anglophone perspective four distinctive qualities of th…
Published:Professional and Practice-based Learning
(2015)
Students’ personal epistemologies are central to their learning in both education and practice settings. These epistemologies comprise what they know, can do and value and as such are the foundations for how they engage with what they experience in both settings, and also come to learn from those ac…
Published:Professional and Practice-based Learning
(2015)
This chapter offers an overview of the field of Francophone research on learning through work and is intended as a platform for presenting a delineation of this field. More specifically, the chapter presents a range of research traditions that have secured important places within the French-speaking…
Published:Professional and Practice-based Learning
(2015)
The recent literature in the field of workplace learning has stressed the importance of guidance in the process of learning in and from practice. Workers do not only learn just by conducting specific tasks individually; they learn when adequate resources are afforded to them and when more experience…
Published:Professional and Practice-based Learning
(2015)
This chapter commences the discussion that then continues across the contributions of this monograph regarding how practice-based learning experiences (i.e. those in the circumstances of practice and usually outside of university settings) can be utilised and integrated within higher education cours…
