Recognition of prior learning practices within the public further education and training college sector
Magister Educationis - MEd === Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) is the process of recognizing and crediting a person for his/her knowledge and experience however attained and promoting that person along a development pathway. In South Africa RPL has been promoted for social justice purposes relat...
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ndltd-netd.ac.za-oai-union.ndltd.org-uwc-oai-etd.uwc.ac.za-11394-17252017-08-02T04:00:16Z Recognition of prior learning practices within the public further education and training college sector Prinsloo, Nigel Groener, Zelda Hendricks, Mohammed Natheem Faculty of Education Further Education and Training Recognition of Prior Learning National Qualifications Framework Qualifications Skills Development Credentialism Assessment Assessors Social Justice Access Redress Magister Educationis - MEd Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) is the process of recognizing and crediting a person for his/her knowledge and experience however attained and promoting that person along a development pathway. In South Africa RPL has been promoted for social justice purposes related to access and redress. However these intentions have been lost within current educational discourses despite being rooted in several policies. Recently the role of vocational education has received increased prominence as a means to provide skills development. However there is often a disjuncture between policy formulation and implementation and this has given rise to this study of how RPL policy has been implemented within public Further Education and Training (FET) colleges. This paper investigates the RPL policies and practices in two public FET colleges and analyses how these employ social justice intentions of access and redress. The study reveals that there are similar conceptions of RPL amongst lecturers but varying RPL practices in these colleges. South Africa 2013-07-25T13:38:48Z 2012/03/23 10:25 2012/03/23 2013-07-25T13:38:48Z 2009 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/11394/1725 en University of the Western Cape University of the Western Cape |
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Magister Educationis - MEd === Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) is the process of recognizing and crediting a person for his/her knowledge and experience however attained and promoting that person along a development pathway. In South Africa RPL has been promoted for social justice purposes related to access and redress. However these intentions have been lost within current educational discourses despite being rooted in several policies. Recently the role of vocational education has received increased prominence as a means to provide skills development. However there is often a disjuncture between policy formulation and implementation and this has given rise to this study of how RPL policy has been implemented within public Further Education and Training (FET) colleges. This paper investigates the RPL policies and practices in two public FET colleges and analyses how these employ social justice intentions of access and redress. The study reveals that there are similar conceptions of RPL amongst lecturers but varying RPL practices in these colleges. === South Africa |
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Groener, Zelda |
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Recognition of prior learning practices within the public further education and training college sector |
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Recognition of prior learning practices within the public further education and training college sector |
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Recognition of prior learning practices within the public further education and training college sector |
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Recognition of prior learning practices within the public further education and training college sector |
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Recognition of prior learning practices within the public further education and training college sector |
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recognition of prior learning practices within the public further education and training college sector |
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University of the Western Cape |
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