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

• Main Author: Preston, John (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Education.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Educational sociology.; Assessment.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Learning & Instruction.; Philosophy of Education.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Sociology of Education.; Assessment, Testing and Evaluation.

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, Pres...

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.