Heidegger’s Contribution to the Understanding of Work-Based Studies (eBook)

Paul Gibbs (Autor)

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2010
XVI, 176 Seiten
Springer Netherland (Verlag)
978-90-481-3933-0 (ISBN)

Infos

This book seeks to develop the philosophy of Heidegger notion and reflects the growing importance of work based studies which is becoming of special interest to higher education institutions and commercial organisations. The author acknowledges the dominance of the economic discourse of higher education, but in this book he tries to argue that Heidegger offers a phenomenological approach to understanding the diversity to higher education that work based learning can bring. The book offers a structured argument for a phenomenological understanding of both the educational institution and the commercial environment to be considered as workplaces.

Inhalt

Series Editors' Foreword 7
Preface 9
Contents 10
List of Tables 13
1 Introduction 14
Background 14
Heidegger? 15
Chapter 2: Work-Based Learning as a Field of Study 17
Chapter 3: Learning as Knowledge of Being-in-the-World 18
Chapter 4: Dwelling at Work: A Place Where Vocation and Identity Grow? 18
Chapter 5: What Is Work? A Heideggerian Insight into Work as a Site for Learning 18
Chapter 6: Heidegger Time, Work and the Challenges for University-Led Work-Based Learning
Part II—Issues in Work-Based Studies 19
Chapter 7: Assessment and Recognition of Work-Based Learning 19
Chapter 8: Quality in Work-Based Studies: Not Lost, Merely Undiscovered 20
Chapter 9: Adopting Consumer Time: Potential Issues for Higher Level Work-Based Learning 20
Chapter 10: The Concept of Boredom: Its Impact on Work-Based Learning 20
Chapter 11: Practical Wisdom and the Worker Researcher 21
Chapter 12: Carrying Out Phenomenological Research in the Workplace 21
Chapter 13: The Recession and the World of Work-Based Studies 21
Part I Context 22
2 Work-Based Learning as a Field of Study 23
WBL: Roots in the Ancients 24
Understanding Work-Based Learning 25
Developing a Notion of Field for Work-Based Learning 26
A Fuller Heideggerian Understanding 32
3 Learning as Knowledge of Being-in-the-World 35
Capability, Potential and Actualization 36
The Unconcealment of Being Through Learning 38
The Concealment of Representational Thinking 39
Existential Reflection 41
Pedagogy of Praxis 43
Summary 44
4 Dwelling at Work 46
Phronesis 47
Technical Skill or the Embracing of a Craft—Turning to Heidegger 49
The Tension Between Workplace Identity and Dispositions of Democracy 52
What Is the Evidence? 53
5 What Is Work? A Heideggerian Insight into the Workplace as a Site for Learning 57
Understanding the Meaning of the Workplace 58
Structuring 59
The Equipmental Nature of the Workplace 61
Defining Work and the Worker 63
Marcuse 66
Arendt 67
Technological Way of Being 68
The Worker 69
Summary 72
6 Heidegger: Time, Work and the Challenges for University-Led Work-Based Learning 73
Heidegger and His Phenomena of Time 74
Heidegger and His Phenomena of Historicity 78
The Worker and the Labourer in the Age of Technology: Heidegger's Use of Junger's Works 80
Questioning Temporality and Seeking an Originary Future 83
Part II Issues in WorkBased Studies 87
7 Assessment and Recognition of Work-Based Learning 88
The Temporality of the Known: A Fore-Structure and Foreclosure of Assessment 89
Tacit Knowledge 90
Evidence 90
Disclosing Educational Possibilities, Not Assessing 93
Explicitness of Learning 95
Phenomenological Interpretations 98
8 Quality in Work-Based Studies Is Not Lost, Merely Undiscovered 101
Quality and Work-Based Learning 102
Quality in Our Everydayness from a Heideggerian Perspective 104
Quality Undisclosed 105
A Conscience? 107
The Desire for Disappearance 108
9 Adopting Consumer Time: Potential Issues for Higher Level Work-Based Learning 110
Consumerism and the Changing Notion of Time 111
Higher Level Work-Based Learning 113
Heidegger Once Again 114
Summary 116
10 The Concept of Boredom: Its Impact on Work-Based Learning 118
Moods 119
Heidegger and the Experience of Boredom 121
Three Explorations: Bored-by, Bored-with and Profound Boredom 127
Bored-by 127
Bored-with 128
Profound Boredom 129
Summary 130
11 Practical Wisdom and the Workplace Researcher 131
The Skills of Workplace Researchers 134
Practical Enquiry 136
The Purpose of the Action 137
The Means to Be Able to Act 138
The Feasibility of the Act 139
Determinate Timing 139
Respect for Others 140
Research Ethics: Gratitude 141
Summary 144
12 Doing Phenemological Research in the Workplace 145
Setting the Scene for the Vignettes 147
Vignettes 148
Vignette 1 148
Vignette 2 151
Vignette 3 152
Summary 152
13 The World of Work-Based Studies and the Recession 154
Learning 154
Capability 156
The Workplace as a Learning Environment 157
A Generalized Anxiety 158
References 160
Author Index 173
Subject Index 177

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.9.2010
• Reihe/Serie: Professional and Practice-based Learning
• Reihe/Serie: Professional and Practice-based Learning
• Zusatzinfo: XVI, 176 p.
• Verlagsort: Dordrecht
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Berufspädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Schlagworte: Heidegger • work based learning • work based studies • workplace learning
• ISBN-10: 90-481-3933-3 / 9048139333
• ISBN-13: 978-90-481-3933-0 / 9789048139330