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Direct linkSandberg, Fredrik; Andersson, Per – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2011
This article focuses on a process of recognition of prior learning (RPL) in higher education. It is based on experiences from a project carried out in collaboration between the University of Lund, Linkoping University and two trade unions in Sweden. The aim of the project was to find ways of recognising prior learning for accreditation of course…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Prior Learning, College Credits, Unions
Andersson, Per – Journal of Education Policy, 2008
The recognition of prior learning (RPL) has been a part of adult education policy and practice for a long time, but in different ways and in different times and places. In Sweden, RPL has been an explicit part of the policy since 1996. This policy analysis starts with the current Swedish policy concerning RPL. The figures of thought expressed in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Prior Learning, Adult Learning, Adult Students
Andersson, Per; Osman, Ali – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2008
The purpose of this article is to describe and analyze how recognition of prior learning acts as a dividing practice and a technique for inclusion/exclusion of immigrants in their vocations in Swedish working life. It is a qualitative study of three pilot programs in Swedish urban centers, and the data consist of interviews and documents…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Labor Market, Prior Learning, Qualitative Research
Andersson, Per – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2006
Recognition of prior learning (RPL) involves an idea of "making learning visible"--of valuing knowledge irrespective of how, when and where it is learnt. This is a phenomenographic analysis of how a group of caretakers from a Swedish property management company experience participation in an RPL initiative focusing on their vocational competence.…
Descriptors: Individual Development, Learning Experience, Participation, Prior Learning
Andersson, Per; Fejes, Andreas; Ahn, Song-Ee – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2004
Initiatives in the recognition of prior learning (RPL) have been taken in Sweden in recent years, mainly focusing on prior vocational learning among immigrants. The government started different projects to find methods for recognising a person's prior learning in the field of vocational competence. This article presents a study of how these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Swedish, Immigrants, Prior Learning
