Work-based Knowledge

by Carol Costley, Pauline Armsby

This book will give definition to the broad but significant elements of Work Based Learning (WBL) that exemplify it as a field concerned with knowledge that lies outside the university, in which students are the experts, managing their learning as workers who are insiders, in control of their learning.
Arising from new work practices within societies, are new ways of making meaning, framing questions and making enquiries into meanings. Multi-disciplinary or trandisciplinary approaches to knowledge are now necessary to answer the questions of complex societies.
It is with this background in mind that WBL as a field and mode of study has emerged as one of the major new spheres of learning and knowledge transfer in higher education over the last 15 years. The book will present a cogent argument for the development of WBL as a field of study, concentrating on its emergence from societal change and on opportunities for pioneering professional development.

192 pages, Hardcover

First published November 22, 2012