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At the Interface of School and Work
Author(s) -
Lewis Theodore
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
journal of philosophy of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.501
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-9752
pISSN - 0309-8249
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9752.2005.00446.x
Subject(s) - work (physics) , interface (matter) , sociology , library science , media studies , engineering , computer science , pulmonary surfactant , gibbs isotherm , chemical engineering , mechanical engineering
The current emphasis that organisations are placing upon knowledge and the corresponding attention that workplace epistemological values are receiving within the educational community has resulted in an interesting convergence of discourses—school‐based and work‐based. Even as workplaces are tending toward abstraction over practice—based knowing, schools are being nudged into doing the reverse. The result of this ferment is that traditional barriers between these kinds of knowledge are being removed. As can be seen from workplace examples, it is possible for liberal learning to be in the service of instrumental ends. So too schools may come to see more clearly the value of situatedness and team‐work in the transaction of liberal learning. More generally, we see also new possibilities for retreat from received views about the worth of practical knowledge.