eprintid: 10117813
rev_number: 28
eprint_status: archive
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datestamp: 2020-12-18 12:42:11
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type: article
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creators_name: Guile, D
creators_name: Unwin, L
title: Expertise as a ‘capacity for action’: reframing vocational knowledge from the perspective of work
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B16
divisions: B14
divisions: J80
divisions: J81
keywords: Expertise, communication, production and consumption, work practice and organization, intangible assets, vocational knowledge and knowing
note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
abstract: Occupational expertise has always been constituted and afforded recognition and status in work contexts, however, these contexts are becoming increasingly interconnected and interrelated, underpinned by, ‘intangible assets’. To explore this complex process and its implications for vocational education and training (VET), this article uses the concept of expertise as a ‘capacity for action’ and its emphasis on the communicative dimension of expertise. It explores the implications of these ideas by identifying, firstly, the ways in which knowledge is produced, consumed, adapted, and discarded through work practices and, secondly, how the valuing of expertise arises from the contexts in which its deployed and shaped. The paper concludes with a framework to show how the necessary components for the development of expertise as a ‘capacity for action’ within VET programmes could be portrayed. It argues that this could offer the means to strengthen the capacity of VET learners (at whatever stage) to both utilise their expertise and understand how it is being recognised and valued.
date: 2022
date_type: published
publisher: Informa UK Limited
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1080/13636820.2020.1858939
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1837745
doi: 10.1080/13636820.2020.1858939
lyricists_name: Guile, David
lyricists_name: Unwin, Lorna Winifred
lyricists_id: DJGUI85
lyricists_id: LWUNW98
actors_name: Austen, Jennifer
actors_id: JAUST66
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Journal of Vocational Education & Training
volume: 74
number: 1
pagerange: 31-49
citation:        Guile, D;    Unwin, L;      (2022)    Expertise as a ‘capacity for action’: reframing vocational knowledge from the perspective of work.                   Journal of Vocational Education & Training , 74  (1)   pp. 31-49.    10.1080/13636820.2020.1858939 <https://doi.org/10.1080/13636820.2020.1858939>.       Green open access   
 
document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10117813/3/Guile_Final%20submission%20version%20-%20JVET%20paper.pdf