Universities, Work‐based Learning and Issues about Knowledge[1]
Open Access
- 1 January 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Research in Post-Compulsory Education
- Vol. 1 (3) , 357-372
- https://doi.org/10.1080/1359674960010306
Abstract
This article, written before but in anticipation of the Dearing report into Higher Education in the United Kingdom looks at the emergence of an advocacy of work‐based learning in the context of increasing pressure for change in higher education over the preceding 30 years. It argues that successive government agencies have — in their enthusiasm to promote work‐based learning — greatly oversimplified the complexity of the knowledge that ensues from learning in the workplace. The article works towards a tentative diagrammatic description of the complexity of occupational knowledge.Keywords
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