Heideggers Contribution to the Understanding of Work-Based Studies [Paperback]

This book seeks to develop the philosophy of Heidegger notion and reflects the growing importance of work based studies which is becoming of special interest to higher education institutions and commercial organisations. The author acknowledges the dominance of the economic discourse of higher education, but in this book he tries to argue that Heidegger offers a phenomenological approach to understanding the diversity to higher education that work based learning can bring. The book offers a structured argument for a phenomenological understanding of both the educational institution and the commercial environment to be considered as workplaces.This book develops the philosophy of Heidegger notion and reflects the growing importance of work based studies. It argues for a phenomenological understanding of both the educational institution and the commercial environment to be considered as workplaces.IntroductionBackgroundPART ICONTEXTChapter 1 Work-Based Learning as a Field of StudyWBL: Roots in the AncientsUnderstanding Work-Based LearningDeveloping a Notion of the Field for Work-Based LearningUnderstandingChapter 2 Learning as Knowledge of Being-in-the-WorldLearning as Being-in-the-WorldCapability, Potential and ActualizationThe Unconcealment of Being Through LearningThe Concealment of Representational ThinkingExistential ReflectionSummaryChapter 3 Dwelling at WorkPhronesisTechnical Skill or the Embracing of a CraftTurning to HeideggerThe Tension Between Workplace Identity and Dispositions of DemocracyWhat is the Evidence?Chapter 4 What is work? A Heideggerian Insight into Work as a Site for LearningBeing and WorkA Heideggerian Phenomenology of Workplace and WorkerThe WorkerWhat Does Heidegger Offer the Researcher Investigating the Workplace?SummaryChapter 5 Heidegger; Time, Work and the Challenges for University Lead Work-Based LearningHeidegger and his Phenomena of TimeHeidegger and his Phenomena of HistoricityThe Worker and the Labourer in the Age of TechnolC†