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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255100103321

Autore

Preston John

Titolo

Competence Based Education and Training (CBET) and the End of Human Learning : The Existential Threat of Competency / / by John Preston

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

9783319551104

3319551108

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VII, 119 p.)

Collana

Palgrave Pivot

Disciplina

371.3

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.