ERIC Number: ED458409
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2001
Pages: 234
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ISBN: ISBN-0-335-20581-X
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Work-Based Learning: A New Higher Education?
Boud, David, Ed.; Solomon, Nicky, Ed.
This three-part book contains 16 chapters exploring work-based learning from a theoretical and case-study perspective in the United Kingdom. Part 1, Framing Work-based Learning, contains the following four chapters: "New Practices for New Times" (David Boud, Nicky Solomon, and Colin Symes); "Repositioning Universities and Work" (David Boud and Nicky Solomon); "Knowledge at Work: Issues of Learning" (David Boud); and "Creating a Work-Based Curriculum" (David Boud). Ten case studies in the second part of the book include: "From Once Upon a Time to Happily Ever After: The Story of Work-Based Learning in the UK Higher Education Sector" (Norman Evans); "Making It Work Institutionally" (Derek Portwood); "Ensuring a Holistic Approach to Work-Based Learning: The Capability Envelope" (John Stephenson); "Working with Partners To Promote Intellectual Capital" (Jonathan Garnett, Alison Comerford, and Neville Webb); "The Possibilities in a Traditional University" (Lynne Caley); "Implementing Work-Based Learning for the First Time" (Jenny Onyx); "Smart Work: What Industry Needs from Partnerships" (Nicholas Shipley); "A Challenge to Assessment and Quality Assurance in Higher Education" (Richard Winter); "Setting the Standards: Judging Levels of Achievement" (Frank Lyons and Mike Bement); and "Earning Academic Credit for Part-Time Work" (Iain S. Marshall and Lynn S. M. Cooper). The final part, Past, Present, and Future, includes "Capital Degrees: Another Episode in the History of Work and Learning" (Colin Symes); and "Future Directions for Work-based Learning: Reconfiguring Higher Education" (David Boud and Nicky Solomon). (KC)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Education, Change Strategies, Corporate Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Practices, Educational Quality, Foreign Countries, Industrial Education, Institutional Survival, Integrated Curriculum, Part Time Employment, Postsecondary Education, School Business Relationship, Secondary Education, Standard Setting, Student Evaluation, Vocational Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia; United Kingdom
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