These eight myths, recognised as such,
give the lie to any notion that vocational
learning is not a complex, intelligent
activity in which more than just the brain
is engaged:
Myth 1: Practical learning is
cognitively simple.
Myth 2: Clever people ‘grow out’ of
practical learning.
Myth 3: You have to understand
something before you can
(learn how) to do it.
Myth 4: Clever people don’t get
their hands dirty.
Myth 5: Clever people don’t ‘need’
Traditionally, vocational education
outcomes are framed in terms of skills
or competencies relating to particular
vocational domains with, recently, a greater
interest in basic skills (in literacy, numeracy
and IT for example), and also in what are
increasingly referred to as 21st century
or wider skills (Lucas and Claxton, 2009).