Experimental Learning for All

A comprehensive critique of the philosophy and practice of experiential learning. Each chapter provides a different focus for discussion, and the book concludes with a projection of the future of the Assessment of Prior Experiential Learning (APEL).

Education & Teaching

Evans, Norman

Schools & Teaching

Continuum Intl Pub Group

First published in 1992, Experiential Learning was written to explore in detail the ways in which the assessment and accreditation of prior and current experiential learning (APEL) was being practised in higher education, further education, community and voluntary provision, training organisations and employment, in provision for the unemployed, youth training schemes, and for updating and retraining. The book argues that individuals can be encouraged and motivated to learn if they are enabled to develop a due sense of their own capacity to learn. It looks at the background of APEL in Britain, and explores its progression into a day-to-day concern for policy-makers and providers of formal courses and training and development programmes in many sectors. It also considers how APEL can be used alongside other economic and social developments to improve the organisation and the provision of opportunities for learning at the post-secondary stage. Experiential Learning will appeal to those with an interest in the history and theory of the assessment and accreditation of experiential learning.

Experiential Learning (Routledge Revivals)

Higher & Continuing Education

Routledge

This is an exploration of the ways in which the assessment and accreditation of prior and current experiential learning (APEL) is being practised in higher education, further education, community and voluntary provision, training organizations and employment, in provision for the unemployed, youth training schemes and for updating and retraining. In the context of the current debate on improving access and raising participation rates in all forms of post-secondary education, it offers a way forward, showing that individuals can be encouraged and motivated to learn if they are enabled to develop a due sense of their own capacity to learn. Systematic assessment of prior and experiential learning can give credit for all the knowledge and skills that people have acquired through life, work experience and study which have not been formally attested through any educational or professional certification. The book looks at the background to the introduction of APEL in Britain, showing how it has progressed over 10 years into a day-to-day concern for policy-makers and providers of formal courses and training and development programmes in many sectors.

Experiential Learning: Its Assessment and Accreditation

Making Sense of Lifelong Learning

Making Sense of Lifelong Learning looks beyond the rhetoric about lifelong learning (LLL), and asks long overdue questions such as, Who is actually in need of LLL? What are the motives of institutions, employers and the Government in promoting LLL? And, who says what is and what is not LLL? In the context of the previous government attempts to enhance the economic strength of the country, the author also makes suggestions as to what might be done to encourage wider participation in LLL, particularly with regard to the increasing economic and social gaps in today's society. The considerable demographic changes to the workplace have affected the entire population, and yet employers, the government and the individual all have very different expectations from LLL. It is this previously unchallenged 'mismatch' that is one of the central themes of the book.

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Making Sense of Lifelong Learning looks beyond the rhetoric about lifelong learning (LLL), and asks long overdue questions such as, Who is actually in need of LLL? What are the motives of institutions, employers and the Government in promoting LLL? And, who says what is and what is not LLL?In the context of the previous government attempts to enhance the economic strength of the country, the author also makes suggestions as to what might be done to encourage wider participation in LLL, particularly with regard to the increasing economic and social gaps in today's society. The considerable demographic changes to the workplace have affected the entire population, and yet employers, the government and the individual all have very different expectations from LLL. It is this previously unchallenged 'mismatch' that is one of the central themes of the book.

Preliminary evaluation of the in-service BEd Degree: With particular reference to further professional training

Reference

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Exploiting experience: Recognising what has been learnt on the job as a starting point for retraining

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Further Education Unit

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