Heidegger’s Contribution to the Understanding of Work-Based Studies

• Main Author: Gibbs, Paul (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Edition: 1.
• Series: Professional and Practice-based Learning, 4
• Subjects: Education.; Phenomenology.; Lifelong learning.; Adult education.; Professional & Vocational Education.; Lifelong Learning/Adult Education.

This book seeks to develop the philosophy of Heidegger notion and reflects the growing importance of work based studies which is becoming of special interest to higher education institutions and commercial organisations. The author acknowledges the dominance of the economic discourse of higher educa...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Part I: Context
• Chapter 1 Work-Based Learning as a Field of Study
• Chapter 2 Learning as Knowledge of Being-in-the-World
• Chapter 3 Dwelling at Work
• Chapter 4 What is work? A Heideggerian Insight into Work as a Site for Learning
• Chapter 5 Heidegger; Time, Work and the Challenges for University Lead Work-Based Learning
• Part II—ISSUES IN WORK-BASED STUDIES
• Chapter 6 Quality in Work-Based Studies: Not Lost, Merely Undiscovered
• Chapter 7 Assessment and Recognition of Work-Based Learning
• Chapter 8 Learning Agreement—Entitlements and Evidence in Work-Based Learning
• Chapter 9 A Heideggerian Phenomenology Approach to Higher Education as Workplace: A Consideration of Academic Professionalism
• Chapter 10 Adopting Consumer Time: Potential Issues for Higher Level Work-Based Learning
• Chapter 11 The Concept of Boredom: Its Impact on Work-Based Learning
• Chapter 12 Practical Wisdom and the Workplace Researcher
• Chapter 13 The Recession and the World of Work-Based Studies
• Index.