Preston Competence Based Education and Training (CBET) and the End of Human Learning

The Existential Threat of Competency
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-55110-4
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 119 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Preston, John

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. CBET as a Theory of Non-Learning.- 3. Rethinking existential threats and education.- 4. CBET and Our Human Future.

Über Autor(innen)

John Preston is Professor of Education at the Cass School of Education, University of East London, UK.