This extremely topical and updated second edition of Assessment of Prior Learning: A Practitioners Guide focuses on the methods of correctly documenting and comprehensively assessing evidence of prior learning at institutions, outside formal education or training or via previous careers which enables students to gain credits on an academic course of study. Fully in-line with the updated Nursing and Midwifery Councils standards, this accessible text provides a wealth of activities to promote reflective study, fully customisable diary and assessment records and new contributors providing an insight to Assessment of Prior Leaning from a wider international context.

About the Author
Malcolm Day is a Lecturer in Adult Nursing and APL Advisor at Nottingham University School of Nursing, where he runs a postgraduate teaching and learning module as part of the PGCE for newly appointed university teaching staff. Malcolm is also Secretary to the newly formed International Indigenous RPL Collective. This is a worldwide network that recognises the prior learning(RPL) of indigenous people, and he has had a key role in facilitating the development of APL within British Columbia and the newly emergent Universities of Technology in South Africa.

Reviews
DRAFT CHAPTER ONE, CONTEXTS CHAPTER TWO, PERSPECTIVES CHAPTER THREE, DEVELOPMENTS IN THE UK CHAPTER FOUR, DEVELOPMENTS IN CANADA CHAPTER FIVE DEVELOPMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES CHAPTER SIX, THE CAREER OF THE PLA PRACTITIONER CHAPTER SEVEN, CONCLUSION



Book Information
ISBN 9781408068052
Author Malcolm Day
Format Paperback
Page Count 128
Imprint Cengage Learning EMEA
Publisher Cengage Learning EMEA
Weight(grams) 266g
Dimensions(mm) 246mm * 190mm * 7mm