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(2013) Learning, work and practice, Dordrecht, Springer.
The role of on-the-job and off-the-job provision in vocational education and training
Gerard Lum
pp. 21-32
Drawing on Martin Heidegger's notion of being-in-the-world to represent occupational capability as the facility to make sense of a "world" of occupation-specific meanings and involvements, a perspective which contrasts greatly with more traditional accounts centred on the dichotomies of theory-practice, thinking-doing, and so on. It seems to me that this alternative conception of occupational capability has a number of important implications for the role of work-based learning, and I would be interested in exploring these with a view to determining, amongst other things, what can and cannot be expected from workplace learning. Our getting clear about the substantive benefits of work-based learning, I would argue, necessitates acknowledging its limitations.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4759-3_3
Full citation:
Lum, G. (2013)., The role of on-the-job and off-the-job provision in vocational education and training, in P. Gibbs (ed.), Learning, work and practice, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 21-32.
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