Re-Theorising the Recognition of Prior Learning - Softcover

Anderson, Per; Harris, Judy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1862012652 ISBN 13: 9781862012653

Publisher: National Institute of Adult Continuing Education, 2006

Synopsis

The recognition of prior learning (RPL) is an educational response to the need to widen participation in education and training for economic advancement and social inclusion. The social meanings of RPL have different configurations depending on historical, cultural, economic and political forces in different places. One constant is the reliance on the widely pervasive educational philosophies of experiential learning: constructivism and progressivism. This book challenges the orthodoxy of experiential learning and the particular readings of knowledge, pedagogy, learning, identity and power which it privileges. It does this by introducing different theoretical resources to RPL and drawing on experiences of RPL in the UK, the USA, Canada, South Africa, Australia, and Sweden. The book provides a range of re-conceptualisations of the relational terrain between adult experience and learning on the one hand, and specialist or academic knowledge on the other.

Edition details

• Publisher: National Institute of Adult Continuing Education
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1862012652
• ISBN 13: 9781862012653
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 342