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Winch's book sharpens the philosophical questions worth examining in relation to educational assessment by exploring the nature of occupational expertise...This book invites higher education educators and administrators to shore up sloppy thinking about assessment. --Rebecca Slough, Teaching Theology and Religion Journal

'Professor Winch combines, on the one hand, a profound philosophical understanding of the connection between theoretical and practical knowledge with, on the other, a close awareness of the practical and vocational worlds to be illuminated by that understanding. That, currently, is important as we see the separation of 'knowing that' from 'knowing how', theoretical understanding from practical capability, academic learning from vocational preparation. This book is vital reading for those who wish to look critically at the developing agenda for education and training in secondary schools and colleges.'Richard Pring, Lead Director of the Nuffield Review of 14-19 Education and Training and Emeritus Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford University, UK.

This is an astute and superb text on the nature of vocational knowledge... a must read for anybody interested in, or involved with, vocational education at any level.

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Christopher Winch is Professor of Educational Philosophy and Policy at King's College London, UK.

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