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020			_a9781862012653 (pbk)
040			_cJCRC
245	0	0	_aRe-theorising the Recognition of Prior Learning / _cedited by Per Andersson and Judy Harris.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aLeicester : _bNIACE (National Institute of Adult Continuing Education), _c2006.
300			_axii, 330 p. : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_a"The Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) is one of a cluster of educational responses to the need to widen participation in education and training for reasons of economic advancement and/ or social inclusion. In different countries, RPL has taken on different social meanings depending on historical, cultural, economic and political forces. In most practices, there is a reliance on the widely pervasive educational philosophies of experiential learning, constructivism and progressivism.
505			_aRPL seems to have got stuck in a discourse of righteousness, in which any critique of practice is taken to imply a critique of the social project that RPL practices (and practitioners) seek to advance. This book challenges the orthodoxy of experiential learning and the particular readings of knowledge, pedagogy, learning, identity and power, which it privileges. It does this by introducing different theoretical resources to RPL and drawing on experiences in the UK, South Africa, Australia, Sweden, Canada and the USA.
505			_aThe chapters provide re-conceptualisations of the relationship between adult experience and learning on the one hand, and specialist or academic knowledge on the other. This terrain is not unique to RPL, but such practices do offer 'spaces' where such relationships can be revisited and debated. However, to do so requires more complex understandings of knowledge, pedagogy, learning, identity and power than are afforded by experiential learning theory." (Book Cover)
505			_aCONTENTS:
505			_aForeword; Information on authors
505			_aChapter 1. Introduction and overview of chapters / _rJudy Harris
505			_aChapter 2. Different faces and functions of RPL: an assessment perspective / _rPer Andersson
505			_aChapter 2. Different faces and functions of RPL: an assessment perspective / _rPer Andersson
505			_aChapter 3. Questions of knowledge and curriculum in the recognition of prior learning / _rJudy Harris
505			_aChapter 4. A disciplinary-specific approach to the recognition of prior informal experience in adult pedagogy: 'rpl' as opposed to 'RPL' / _rMignonne Breier
505			_aChapter 5. Portfolio-based assessment of prior learning: a cat and mouse chase after invisible criteria / _rYael Shalem and Carola Steinberg
505			_aChapter 6. RPL and the disengaged learner: the need for new starting points / _rRoslyn Cameron
505			_aChapter 7. Beyond Galileo's telescope: situated knowledge and the recognition or prior learning / _rElana Michelson
505			_aChapter 8. Using critical discourse analysis to illuminate power and knowledge in RPL / _rHelen Peters
505			_aChapter 9. The politics of difference: non-recognition of the foreign credentials and prior work experience of immigrant professionals in Canada and Sweden / _rShibao Guo and Per Andersson
505			_aChapter 10. RPL: an emerging and contested practice in South Africa / _r Ruksana Osman
505			_aChapter 11. 'Tools of mediation': an historical-cultural approach to RPL / _rLinda Cooper
505			_aChapter 12. Vocations, 'graduateness' and the recognition of prior learning / _rLeesa Wheelahan
505			_aChapter 13. Recognising prior learning: what do we know? / _rHelen Pokorny
505			_aChapter 14. Reconfiguring RPL and its assumptions: a complexified view / _rTara Fenwick
505			_aChapter 15. Understanding the transformative dimension of RPL / _rSusan Whittaker, Ruth Whittaker and Paula Cleary
505			_aChapter 16. Endword / _rMichael Young
505			_aIndex
650		0	_aAdult education _xResearch _vCongresses.
650		0	_aExperiential learning _xResearch _vCongresses.
650		0	_aNon-formal education _xResearch _vCongresses.
650		0	_aPrior learning.
650		0	_aAdult education.
700	1		_aAndersson, Per _d1964-
700	1		_aHarris, Judy
856			_uhttps://ocul-uo.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01OCUL_UO/gege1p/alma991013145119705161 _zCheck the UO Library catalog.
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