β Scribed by John Preston (auth.)
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
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 slaughterhouse and radical behaviourism, the book charts the history of competency education to its position as a global phenomenon today, arguing that competency is opposed to ideas of process, causality and analog human movement that are fundamental to human learning.
Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Introduction....Pages 1-7
CBET as a Theory of Non-Learning....Pages 9-59
Rethinking Existential Threats and Education....Pages 61-93
CBET and Our Human Future....Pages 95-116
Back Matter....Pages 117-119
Learning & Instruction;Philosophy of Education;Educational Policy and Politics;Sociology of Education;Assessment, Testing and Evaluation;Sociology of Education
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