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Drawing on Martin Heidegger’s notion of being-in-the-world to represent occupational capability as the facility to make sense of a ‘world’ of occupation-specific meanings and involvements, a perspective which contrasts greatly with more traditional accounts centred on the dichotomies of theory-practice, thinking-doing, and so on. It seems to me that this alternative conception of occupational capability has a number of important implications for the role of work-based learning, and I would be interested in exploring these with a view to determining, amongst other things, what can and cannot be expected from workplace learning. Our getting clear about the substantive benefits of work-based learning, I would argue, necessitates acknowledging its limitations.
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Lum, G. (2013). The Role of On-the-Job and Off-the-Job Provision in Vocational Education and Training. In: Gibbs, P. (eds) Learning, Work and Practice: New Understandings. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4759-3_3
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