Practice-based fine learning

Practice-based professionals such as lawyers and surveyors learning PBPL is understood in contrast to classroom- or theory-based learning. this is the kindred to terms such as work-based learning, workplace or work-centred learning. Distinctive, though, are a concern for professionals such as lawyers and surveyors learning, together with the preference for practice rather than work. While it does not disdain propositional knowledge and what is sometimes called theory, its prime interest is in the format of self-renewing and effective professional practices—a distinct theoretical position in its own right.

UK Higher Education

The range of concerns may be seen, for example, in the UK Open University's practice-based professional learning centre, one of the Higher Education Funding Council for England's centres for excellence in teaching in addition to learning. Its interests cover the inter-relation of various forms of professional knowledge, ways of fostering them and their co-ordination, workplaces as sites of learning, the assessment of practice-based learning achievements, and the ownership of modern technologies to support distributed learning.

Other centres for excellence occupy some or all of the territory, notably the Professional developing Unit at the University of Chester, SCEPTrE in the University of Surrey, CEPLW in the University of Westminster and NCWBLP in Middlesex University.

Interest in this territory is non confined to the UK, with some of the most respected shit associated with David Boud at the University of Technology, Sydney, NSW.