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Learning, Work and Practice: New Understandings, 2013
Coordinator: Gibbs Paul
Language: EnglishSubject for Learning, Work and Practice: New Understandings:
Publication date: 09-2014
224 p. · 15.5x23.5 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 08-2012
224 p. · 15.5x23.5 cm · Paperback
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Introduction- Thinking about work in work based learning, Paul Gibbs.- Section one.- The Workplace as a Site of Learning. Reflections on the Conceptual Relationship between Workplace and Learning, Christopher Winch.- Practice as a key idea in understanding work-based learning, Paul Hager.- The role of on-the-job and off-the-job provision in vocational education and training, Gerald Lum.- Tacit Knowledge and the Labor Process, Theodore Lewis.- Workplace Identity, Transition and the Role of Learning, Geoff Hinchcliffe.- Ontological Distinctiveness and the Emergence of Purposes, David Beckett.- Section two.- Aristotelian Gnoseology and Work-Based Learning, Marianna Papastephanou.- Working our way through murky coordinates: Philosophy in support of truth processes, Kent den Heyer.- Deconstructing practice: exploring the temporal play of know-how and being in the workplace, Kevin J. Flint.- An epistemology of the hand: Putting pragmatism to work, Svend Brinkmann, Lene Tanggaard.- Neo-Pragmatism, meaning and learning in the workplace, Paul Gibbs.- Section three.- Foucault and work-based Research Ethics: Revisiting some issues, Michalinos Zembylas.- Communitarian Ethics and Work-based Education: Some African Perspectives, Thaddeus Metz.- Islamic Perspectives on Work-Based Learning, Mesut Akdere, Jackleen M. Salem, S. Mahdy Amine.
Considers the subject from a range of philosophers’ perspectives
First serious collection of paper by acknowledged scholars in the field
Distinctive through the positioning of learning as edifying
Reveals insights to help develop practice