Education for capability: Details of the Royal Society of Arts Recognition Scheme

Abstract

Fifteen schemes which in different ways help people to live and work more capably have been recognised by the Royal Society of Arts. The purpose is to encourage and promote Education for Capability. The Royal Society of Arts Education for Capability Recognition Scheme was launched during 1980 to publicise achievement in Education for Capability in order to influence others. Education for Capability was the title of a manifesto published in Feburary 1980 with over 140 names from the worlds of education and industry appended in support. The manifesto stated that the education and training process gives too much emphasis to analysis, criticism and the acquisition of knowledge and not enough to problem‐solving, doing, making and organising. ‘We believe’, the signatories declared, ‘that education should spend more time in teaching people skills and preparing them for life outside the education system; and that the country would benefit in economic terms from this re‐balancing towards education for capability’.

Citation

(1981), "Education for capability: Details of the Royal Society of Arts Recognition Scheme", Industrial and Commercial Training, Vol. 13 No. 1, pp. 14-21. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb003818