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

by John M. Preston

Book 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319855700
• ISBN13: 9783319855707
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 119 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.3"