Practice-based professional learning
- Practice-based professional learning
Practice-based professional learning (pbpl) is best understood in contrast to 'classroom-' or 'theory-based' learning. It is kindred to terms such as 'work-based', 'workplace' or 'work-centred' learning. Distinctive, though, are a concern for "professional" learning, and the preference for 'practice' rather than 'work'. While it does not disdain propositional knowledge and what is sometimes called 'theory', its prime interest is in the formation of self-renewing and effective professional practices -- a distinct theoretical position in its own right.
The range of concerns may be seen, for example, in the UK Open University's practice-based professional learning centre [ [http://cetl.open.ac.uk/pbpl/ Practice-based Professional Learning - PBPL - The Open University ] ] , one of the Higher Education Funding Council for England's centres for excellence in teaching and learning [ [http://www.hefce.ac.uk/learning/tinits/cetl/ HEFCE : Learning & teaching : Teaching initiatives : Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning ] ] . Its interests cover the inter-relation of various forms of professional knowledge, ways of fostering them and their co-ordination, workplaces as sites of learning, the assessment of practice-based learning achievements, and the use of modern technologies to support distributed learning.
Other centres for excellence occupy some or all of the territory, notably the [http://www.chester.ac.uk/pdu Professional Development Unit] at the University of Chester [ [http://www.chester.ac.uk/pdu/ University of Chester: The Professional Development Unit ] ] , SCEPTrE in the University of Surrey [ [http://www.surrey.ac.uk/sceptre/ SCEPTrE Home Page ] ] , CEPLW in the University of Westminster [ [http://www.wmin.ac.uk/page-5818 CEPLW - Centre for Excellence in Professional Learning from the Workplace ] ] and NCWBLP in Middlesex University [ [http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/ncwblp/index.html Middlesex University - Institute for Work Based Learning ] ] .
Interest in this territory is not confined to the UK, with some of the most respected work associated with David Boud at the University of Technology, Sydney, NSW [ [http://www.education.uts.edu.au/ostaff/staff/david_boud.html David Boud: UTS: Faculty of Education ] ] .
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