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dc.contributor.authorBillett, Stephen
dc.contributor.editorBillett, S
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T12:12:12Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T12:12:12Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.date.modified2011-05-11T07:22:30Z
dc.identifier.isbn978-90-481-3938-5
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/978-90-481-3939-2_4
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/34665
dc.description.abstractThis chapter draws on historical and conceptual accounts of learning to discuss and illuminate the nature and effectiveness of learning for occupations through practice. This discussion includes an analysis of the historical development of practice settings as places where occupational knowledge is generated, transformed, and sustained over time. It includes some consideration of how these kinds of settings were and are now valued as sites for the learning. Going beyond historical accounts, some of the changing conceptions about processes of learning and how place and culture can shape learning, along with the contributions of the learner, are then discussed. In all, it is proposed that the majority of human development and learning associated with the development of occupational capacities has arisen through practice-based experiences. Before the advent of mass education, practice settings were the inevitable place for the development of the majority of occupational knowledge. Indeed, it is a relatively new phenomenon for this development to occur outside of the settings in which it is practised. Importantly, the kinds of knowledge developed through learning-related activities in practice settings are more than those underpinning easy and repetitive tasks. Instead, they comprise complex, demanding, and often difficult-to-learn knowledge. However, to fully realise the contributions of these settings effective conceptual premises and adaptive curriculum, pedagogical, and epistemological procedures are required.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
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dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.publisher.placeDordrecht
dc.publisher.urihttps://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789048139385
dc.relation.ispartofbooktitleLearning through practice: Models, traditions, orientations and approaches
dc.relation.ispartofchapter4
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom59
dc.relation.ispartofpageto81
dc.relation.ispartofedition1
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchOther education not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode399999
dc.titleThe Practices of Learning through Occupations
dc.typeBook chapter
dc.type.descriptionB1 - Chapters
dc.type.codeB - Book Chapters
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Education and Professional Studies
gro.rights.copyright© 2010 Springer. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Use hypertext link for access to the publisher's website.
gro.date.issued2010
gro.hasfulltextFull Text
gro.griffith.authorBillett, Stephen R.


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