Competence Based Education and Training (CBET) and the End of Human Learning: The Existential Threat of Competency
This book radically counters the optimism sparked by Competence Based Education and Training, an educational philosophy that has re-emerged in Schooling, Vocational and Higher Education in the last decade. CBET supposedly offers a new type of learning that will lead to skilled employment; here, Preston instead presents the competency movement as one which makes the concept of human learning redundant. Starting with its origins in Taylorism, the slaughterhouse and radical behaviourism, the book charts the history of competency education to its position as a global phenomenon today, arguing that competency is opposed to ideas of process, causality and analog human movement that are fundamental to human learning.

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Competence Based Education and Training (CBET) and the End of Human Learning: The Existential Threat of Competency
This book radically counters the optimism sparked by Competence Based Education and Training, an educational philosophy that has re-emerged in Schooling, Vocational and Higher Education in the last decade. CBET supposedly offers a new type of learning that will lead to skilled employment; here, Preston instead presents the competency movement as one which makes the concept of human learning redundant. Starting with its origins in Taylorism, the slaughterhouse and radical behaviourism, the book charts the history of competency education to its position as a global phenomenon today, arguing that competency is opposed to ideas of process, causality and analog human movement that are fundamental to human learning.

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Competence Based Education and Training (CBET) and the End of Human Learning: The Existential Threat of Competency

Competence Based Education and Training (CBET) and the End of Human Learning: The Existential Threat of Competency

by John Preston
Competence Based Education and Training (CBET) and the End of Human Learning: The Existential Threat of Competency
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Competence Based Education and Training (CBET) and the End of Human Learning: The Existential Threat of Competency

Competence Based Education and Training (CBET) and the End of Human Learning: The Existential Threat of Competency

by John Preston

Overview

This book radically counters the optimism sparked by Competence Based Education and Training, an educational philosophy that has re-emerged in Schooling, Vocational and Higher Education in the last decade. CBET supposedly offers a new type of learning that will lead to skilled employment; here, Preston instead presents the competency movement as one which makes the concept of human learning redundant. Starting with its origins in Taylorism, the slaughterhouse and radical behaviourism, the book charts the history of competency education to its position as a global phenomenon today, arguing that competency is opposed to ideas of process, causality and analog human movement that are fundamental to human learning.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783319551098
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Publication date: 06/02/2017
Edition description: 1st ed. 2017
Pages: 119
Product dimensions: 5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

John Preston is Professor of Education at the Cass School of Education, University of East London, UK.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. CBET as a Theory of Non-Learning.- 3. Rethinking existential threats and education.- 4. CBET and Our Human Future.

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