Society for Research into Higher Education & Open University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1994.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
207 pages ;
Dimensions
24 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-200) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
pt. 1. Knowledge, Higher Education and Society. 1. The Learning Society? 2. A Certain Way of Knowing? 3. We are all Clerks now -- pt. 2. The New Vocabulary. 4. 'Skills' and 'Vocationalism'. 5. 'Competence' and 'Outcomes'. 6. 'Capability' and 'Enterprise' -- pt. 3. The Lost Vocabulary. 7. Understanding. 8. Critique. 9. Interdisciplinarity. 10. Wisdom -- pt. 4. Competence Reconsidered. 11. Two Rival Versions of Competence. 12. Beyond Competence -- The Society for Research into Higher Education.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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In the new version of "competence" in higher education, the key question is not: "What do students understand?", but "What can students do?". This book develops an alternative view, suggesting that the university curricula might, instead, offer an education for life.