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Autore |
Preston John |
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Titolo |
Competence Based Education and Training (CBET) and the End of Human Learning : The Existential Threat of Competency / / by John Preston |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2017.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (VII, 119 p.) |
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Learning, Psychology of |
Education - Philosophy |
Education and state |
Educational sociology |
Educational tests and measurements |
Instructional Psychology |
Philosophy of Education |
Educational Policy and Politics |
Sociology of Education |
Assessment and Testing |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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1. Introduction -- 2. CBET as a Theory of Non-Learning -- 3. Rethinking existential threats and education -- 4. CBET and Our Human Future. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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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. |
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