Overview
- Questions the place of competency based interpretations of education within learning
- Highlights the limitations of competency based education and training across a variety of contexts
- Suggests alternative progressive ideals for use within vocational learning
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About this book
This book radically counters the optimism sparked by Competence Based Education and Training, an educational philosophy that has re-emerged in Schooling, Vocational and Higher Education in the last decade. CBET supposedly offers a new type of learning that will lead to skilled employment; here, Preston instead presents the competency movement as one which makes the concept of human learning redundant. Starting with its origins in Taylorism, the slaughterhouse and radical behaviourism, the book charts the history of competency education to its position as a global phenomenon today, arguing that competency is opposed to ideas of process, causality and analog human movement that are fundamental to human learning.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
John Preston is Professor of Education at the Cass School of Education, University of East London, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Competence Based Education and Training (CBET) and the End of Human Learning
Book Subtitle: The Existential Threat of Competency
Authors: John Preston
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55110-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-55109-8Published: 12 May 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85570-7Published: 28 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-55110-4Published: 04 May 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 119
Topics: Learning & Instruction, Philosophy of Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Sociology of Education, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation, Sociology of Education