Selling Out Education —— National Qualifications Frameworks and the Neglect of Knowledge

----- 教育出售：国家资格框架与忽视知识

ISBN: 9789462095779 出版年：2014 页码：302 Stephanie Allais Brill

This book raises fundamental questions about national qualifications frameworks which have been adopted in many countries. In particular, about the relationships between these frameworks and the place of knowledge in the curriculum. The author argues that basing education policy on qualifications and learning outcomes, dramatized by the phenomenal expansion of qualifications frameworks, is misguided. Qualifications frameworks are intended to make education more responsive to the needs of economies and societies by improving how qualifications and credentials are used in labour markets. But using learning outcomes as the starting point of education programmes neglects the core purpose of education: giving people access to bodies of knowledge they would not otherwise have. Furthermore, instead of creating demand for skilled workers through industrial and economic policy, qualifications frameworks are premised on the flawed idea that a supply of skilled workers leads to industrial and economic development. And skilled workers are to be supplied not by encouraging governments to focus attention on creating, improving, and supporting education institutions, but by suggesting that governments take a quality-assurance role.