Research Catalog

Title

RPL as specialised pedagogy : crossing the lines / volume editors Linda Coope & Alan Ralphs, chapter authors Karen Deller, Judy Harris [and 6 others].

Publication

• Cape Town : HSRC Press, 2016.
• ©2016

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Additional Authors

• Cooper, Linda, 1953-
• Ralphs, Alan
• Deller, Karen
• Harris, Judy (Lecturer)
• Jones, Barbara
• Moodley, Kessie
• Shah, Anita
• Mphutlane wa Bofelo

Description

xiii, 177 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"Internationally, Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) has become a standard component of education policy reforms aimed at meeting the requirements of a globalised labour market on the one hand, while responding to demands for widening access to further and higher education on the other. However, despite the promises of RPL to enable 'optimal inclusion', this ideal is not easily realised in practice. Drawing on case study research of RPL practices in four different contexts in South Africa, RPL as Specialised Pedagogy: Crossing the Lines offers a novel theoretical framework for understanding RPL not simply as an assessment practice, but as a specialised pedagogy for navigating knowledge boundaries across different contexts. The book develops a conceptual language for describing what is common and distinctive about RPL practices across different sites and contexts, thus providing a unique contribution to a field that has traditionally been under-theorised. RPL as Specialised Pedagogy will be of significant interest to RPL practitioners and educators, to researchers and students in the field, and to policy researchers and policy makers."--Publisher description.

Alternative Title

Recognition of prior learning as a specialised pedagogy

Subjects

• Competency-based education
• Experiential learning
• Adult education > Philosophy
• Recognition of prior learning
• Non-formal education

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Figures and tables -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements and contributors -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Overview / Alan Ralphs -- Conceptual starting points / Linda Cooper -- RPL into postgraduate study: The tension between knowledge specialisation and social inclusion / Linda Cooper, Judy Harris and Barbara Jones -- RPL for access to undergraduate study: Navigation tools / Alan Ralphs -- RPL as 'radical' pedagogy: The recruitment of experience in an alternative education programme / Kessie Moodley, Anitha Shah and Mphutlane wa Bofelo -- RPL and occupational competence / Karen Deller -- RPL as specialised pedagogy: Towards a conceptual framework / Linda Cooper, Alan Ralphs and Judy Harris -- RPL policy and practice: More optimally inclusive configurations / Alan Ralphs -- Appendices -- About the authors -- Index.

ISBN

• 9780796925220
• 0796925224
• 9780796925374 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

• ocn964444729
• 964444729
• SCSB-5880418

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Columbia University Libraries