Vocational and Professional Capability: An Epistemological and Ontological Study of Occupational Expertise (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781441158451)

The central claim of this fascinating monograph is that strategies for vocational and professional education adopted by the UK over the last two decades are founded upon a number of fundamental and fatal errors. The essential problem is that these strategies derive from a number of philosophical confusions about what it is to be skilled, competent or capable. The aim of the book is to unravel the philosophical assumptions at the heart of current strategies, examine their shortcomings and propose a more coherent account of vocational and professional capability. It will be argued that not only does this have serious practical implications for the vocational curriculum, teaching, learning and assessment, but that it indicates the need for an urgent and radical reassessment of the relationship between vocational, general and academic education.

Author: Gerard Lum
ISBN-10: 1441158456
ISBN-13: 9781441158451
Publisher: Continuum
Language: English
Published: 01/05/2012
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.46d