Experiential Learning

First published in 1992, Experiential Learning was written to explore in detail the ways in which the assessment and accreditation of prior and current experiential learning (APEL) was being practised in higher education, further education, community and voluntary provision, training organisations and employment, in provision for the unemployed, youth training schemes, and for updating and retraining. The book argues that individuals can be encouraged and motivated to learn if they are enabled to develop a due sense of their own capacity to learn. It looks at the background of APEL in Britain, and explores its progression into a day-to-day concern for policy-makers and providers of formal courses and training and development programmes in many sectors. It also considers how APEL can be used alongside other economic and social developments to improve the organisation and the provision of opportunities for learning at the post-secondary stage. Experiential Learning will appeal to those with an interest in the history and theory of the assessment and accreditation of experiential learning.

Norman Evans

Part One: Beginnings: A Personal Story; 1: The American Dimension; 2: The British Dimension; 3: APEL in Action Begins; 4: Reflections; Part Two: A Decade of APEL; 5: Introduction; 6: The Assessment and Accreditation of Experiential Learning; 7: APEL and Higher Education; 8: APEL and Further Education; Part Three: APEL in the Future: A Two-Way Street to Opportunity; 9: Introduction; 10: Some Tensions; 11: Post-Industrial Learning; 12: Access: A Two-Way Street; 13: Restructuring, Reorganising, Redeploying; 14: Endpiece; Postscript; Appendix; Notes and References; Selected Reading List; Index