Life Experience--An Academic Con Game?.

Sam, Norman H.

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ERIC Number: EJ196422

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Publication Date: 1979-Feb

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Life Experience--An Academic Con Game?

Sam, Norman H.

Change, v11 n1 p7,62 Feb 1979

A critical look is taken of the comparatively recent practice of awarding college credit for life or work experience. It is suggested that the life-experience approach to "respectability" combines academic snobbery and elitism with pragmatism due to the fear of declining enrollments and subsequent job loss. (LBH)

Descriptors: Academic Standards, Adult Education, Adult Students, College Admission, College Credits, Credentials, Educational Demand, Equivalency Tests, Experiential Learning, Higher Education, Skills, Student Experience

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