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This book has sought to take a wide angle on the contribution of an understanding and application of Heideggerian philosophy and the practicalities of doing and being a workplace learner and researcher. It has covered a number of the better-known and introduced some of the less well-known texts by Heidegger and shown a consistence of focus in his work to discuss the being of Dasein as being-in-the-world. I hope that I have achieved a comprehensive introduction to the contribution of Heidegger to place him alongside Dewey, Ryle and Polanyi as a philosopher whose involvement in practice, knowledge and learning as contributing to Being has begun the interpretation of his views of human activity, action, work and capacity. To do this I want to conclude with just three directions for the application of Heidegger.
Genuine knowledge is something that both the farmer and the manual labourer have, each in his own way and each in his field of work, just as the scholar has it in his field.
(Heidegger, 1993, p. 58)
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Heidegger goes on to say that “nobody wants any longer to become a teacher today, when all are downgraded and graded from below” (for instance, from business) (1968, p. 15), but to pursue this would be a digression here.
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Gibbs, P. (2011). The World of Work-Based Studies and the Recession. In: Heidegger’s Contribution to the Understanding of Work-Based Studies. Professional and Practice-based Learning, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3933-0_13
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