The accreditation of work experience: Whose interests are served?

The Learning Organization

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 82-89

  Gibbs, Paul Thomas ^a   Felicity Morris, Anne ^b  

^a Ashford   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accreditation; Higher education; United Kingdom; Workplace learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986078204     PISSN: 09696474     EISSN: 1758905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09696470110388044     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Aristotle (1971), The Ethics of Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics (trans Thomson, J.A.K., 1953), Penguin Books, London.
2. Aronowitz, S. (2000), The Knowledge Factory, Beacon Press, Boston, MA.
3. Bernstein, R.J. (1983), Beyond Objectivism and Relativism, Blackwells, Oxford.
4. Bourdieu, P. (1998), Practical Reason, Polity Press, Oxford.
5. Brennan, J. and Little, B. (1996), A Review of Work Based Learning in Higher Education, Department for Education and Employment, London.
6. Bridges, D. and McLaughlin, T.H. (1994), Education and the Market Place, The Falmer Press, London, Washington, DC.
7. Brown, R. (1999), Diversity in Higher Education: Has it Been and Gone?, >Inaugural Lecture, Department of Education, Goldsmiths’ College, University of London, 11 March.
8. Carr, W. (1987), ‘What is an educational practice?”, Journal of Philosophy of Education, Vol. 21 No. 2, pp. 163-75.
9. Collins, R. (1979), The Credential Society, an Historical Sociology of Education and Stratification, Academic Press, New York, NY, San Francisco, CA, London.
10. Cooper, D.E. (1983), Authenticity and Learning: Nietzsche's Educational Philosophy, Gregg Revivals (Ashgate, Aldershot, reprint).
11. Garner, J. and Portwood, D. (2000), “Applying work based learning to communities of practice”, in Portwood, D. and Costley, C. (Eds), Work Based Learning and the University: New Perspectives and Practices, Staff and Educational Development Association, Birmingham, pp. 77-84.
12. Garrison, J. (1997), Dewey and Eros, Wisdom and Desire in the Art of Teaching, Teachers’ College Press, Columbia University, New York and London.
13. Halliday, J. (1996), “Empiricism in vocational education and training”, Education, Philosophy and Theory, Vol. 28, pp. 40-56.
14. Hodgson, C. and Sharp, B. (2000), “National Governing Body Awards: a strategy for success”, Journal of Vocational Education & Training, Vol. 52, pp. 199-210.
15. Hyland, T. (1997), “Morality, work and competence: social values in vocational education and training”, in Bridges, D. (Ed.), Education, Autonomy and Democratic Citizenship; Philosophy in a Changing Eorld, Routledge, London and New York.
16. Illich, I. (1971), Deschooling Society, Harper & Row, New York, NY.
17. Jaspers, K. (1960), The Idea of the University, Peter Owen, London.
18. Lyotard, G. (1993), The Post-modern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, Manchester University Press, Manchester.
19. McLeish, A. (1990), “An existential response to competence statements”, Educational Change and Development, Vol. 10 No. 2, pp. 4-5.
20. McNair, S. (1998), “The invisible majority: adult learners in English higher education”, Higher Education Quarterly, Vol. 52 No. 2, pp. 162-78.
21. Portwood, D. (2000), “An intellectual case for work based learning as a subject”, in Portwood, D. and Costley, C. (Eds), Work Based Learning and the University: New Perspectives and Practices, Staff and Educational Development Association, Birmingham, pp. 17-22.
22. Rajan, A., Van Eupen, P., Chapple, K. and Lane, D. (1999), Employability: Bridging the Gap between Rhetoric and Reality, CREATE Publishing.
23. Robertson, D. (1997), “Social justice in a learning market”, in Coffield, F. and Williams, B. (Eds), Repositioning Higher Education, The Society for Research into Higher Education and the Open University Press, Buckingham.
24. Taylor, C. (1997), The Ethics of Authenticity, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA and London.
25. Usher, R. (1997), “Seductive texts: competence, power and knowledge in postmodernity”, in Barnett, R. and Griffin, A. (Eds), The End of Knowledge in Higher Education, Cassell, London, pp. 99-111.
26. White, J. (1997), “Education, work and well-being”, Journal of Philosophy of Education, Vol. 31 No. 2, pp. 233-48.