Learning, Work and Practice: New Understandings

This chapter aims to give an account of Aristotle's theory of knowledge and to associate the version of the theory-practice relation that this account offers with work-based learning. To this end, a critical discussion of the reception of some Aristotelian ideas within the work-based learning contex…

In this chapter, I wish to problematize the context of power relations and politics in WBL and especially the evolving nature of work-based methodologies. I use Foucault's ideas on power/knowledge, ethics and subjectivity to show that a productive research ethic may be formulated in WBL. Current WBL…

Virtually absent from the discourse on knowledge work in the new global economy are treatments of the question of knowledge ownership. There is a default assumption that knowledge yielded in the workplace rightly accrues to the employer, though much of it originates in the minds and out of the pract…

The word 'workplace' most readily conjures up the idea of a discrete type of specialised or purpose-built space where work takes place. Of course, this is true of some workplaces, but this is not a necessary feature of a workplace as such. It is better to think of it as the location of a kind of act…

Drawing on Martin Heidegger's notion of being-in-the-world to represent occupational capability as the facility to make sense of a 'world' of occupation-specific meanings and involvements, a perspective which contrasts greatly with more traditional accounts centred on the dichotomies of theory-pract…