Work-Based Learning: A New Higher Education?

by Boud, David; Solomon, Nicky

• ISBN13: 9780335205806
• ISBN10: 0335205801
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-02-01
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Summary

Work-based learning is a radical approach to the notion of higher education. Students undertake study for a degree or diploma primarily in their workplace and their learning opportunities are not contrived for study purposes but arise from normal work. The role of the university is to equip and qualify people already in employment to develop lifelong learning skills, not through engagement with existing disciplines, bodies of knowledge or courses defined by the university, but through a curriculum unique for each person. The organizations in which students work benefit directly through projects that advance the enterprise as well as contributing to student learning. The arrangement is a three-way partnership - involving organization, learner and university. In this arrangement, individuals' learning is linked to the strategic goals of the organization, together with the knowledge and experience they bring to the learning. The key responsibility at the university is the recognition, assessment and accreditation of the learning.Work-based Learning is the first comprehensive book on this major innovation and:*locates work-based learning as part of major changes influencing universities*includes contributions from many of the pioneers of work-based learning*provides accessible accounts of the teaching, learning and assessment practices involved*examines the impact of this innovation on the institutions in which it is introduced*explores the changes in academic work practices associated with work-based learning and the challenges these present to academics

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
Abbreviations	x
Part 1: Framing Work-based Learning	1	(58)
New Practices for New Times	3	(15)
David Boud
Nicky Solomon
Colin Symes
Repositioning Universities and Work	18	(16)
David Boud
Nicky Solomon
Knowledge at Work: Issues of Learning	34	(10)
David Boud
Creating a Work-based Curriculum	44	(15)
David Boud
Part 2: Case Studies	59	(142)
From Once Upon a Time to Happily Ever After: The Story of Work-based Learning in the UK Higher Education Sector	61	(13)
Norman Evans
Making It Work Institutionally	74	(12)
Derek Portwood
Ensuring a Holistic Approach to Work-based Learning: The Capability Envelope	86	(17)
John Stephenson
Working with Partners to Promote Intellectual Capital	103	(10)
Jonathan Garnett
Alison Comerford
Neville Webb
The Possibilities in a Traditional University	113	(13)
Lynne Caley
Implementing Work-based Learning for the First Time	126	(15)
Jenny Onyx
Smart Work: What Industry Needs from Partnerships	141	(14)
Nicholas Shipley
A Challenge to Assessment and Quality Assurance in Higher Education	155	(12)
Richard Winter
Setting the Standards: Judging Levels of Achievement	167	(17)
Frank Lyons
Mike Bement
Earning Academic Credit for Part-time Work	184	(17)
Iain S. Marshall
Lynn S. M. Cooper
Part 3: Past, Present and Future	201	(27)
Capital Degrees: Another Episode in the History of Work and Learning	203	(12)
Colin Symes
Future Directions for Work-based Learning: Reconfiguring Higher Education	215	(13)
David Boud
Nicky Solomon
Index	228