Special Issue: 5th Validation of Prior Learning Biennale Collection (2025)

Published: 2025-04-03

Introduction to PLAIO Special Issue

Introduction to the Special Issue of PLAIO on the 5th VPL Biennale

Ruud Duvekot, Susan Forseille, Alan Mandell, Nan Travers, Deirdre Goggin, Martina Needham, Carl Burkart
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Welcome

Reflections from the Three Co-Chairs on the 5th VPL Biennale

Susan Forseille, Nan Travers, Andrina Wafer
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5th Biennale Concept Paper

People, Validation, and Power: Democracy in Action?

Deirdre Goggin, Andrina Wafer
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Interview Project

The VPL #5 Biennale Podcast Project

Andrew Skapenko, Rachel Kasten, Maria Casey

Keynote

Exploring 'Recognition' in the Recognition of Prior Learning: Democracy, Freedom, and RPL

Ted Fleming
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Invited Essays: Inclusion

Exploring How Validation of Prior Learning (VPL) Empowers Individuals and Institutions in an Irish and Finnish Context

Sarah Barron, Amanda Butler, Fergus Craddock, Peter Pahlman
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Embedding Consistent RPL Data Collection Processes in Irish Higher Education Institutions

Grace Edge, Christine McCabe, Aishling O'Toole
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Empowering Students in Lifelong Learning: Forging a New Practice of VPL in Icelandic Universities

Anna Magnea Hreinsdóttir
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When Cherries Spoil the Cake

Serge Ravet, Don Presant
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Why Opening the Recognition of ALL Learning Credentials Matters

Julie Reddy
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Cultural Competence Training as an Approach to Valuing Diverse Cultural Knowledge and Ways of Understanding 

Clare Walsh
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Invited Essays: Individual

PLAR for Everyone: A New Way to Recognize Skills and Learning

Michelle Chisholm, Patrick Reinartz
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RPL and Learning Incomes: Context, Relevance, and Social Justice in Higher Education

Armida De La Garza, Ciara Staunton
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Preparing Youth for Validation and Self-Efficacy: Learning to Reflect in Surinamese Primary Education

Ruud Duvekot, Olten van Genderen
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Recognizing Prior Learning (RPL) in the Context of Rural Community Development in Canada

Gary McNeely, Wayne Kelly
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Degree Apprenticeships in England and the Recognition of Prior Learning: Democracy in Action?

Helen Pokorny
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Collaborating and Sharing RPL Knowledge and Practice: The Case of the RPL Digital Badge in Ireland

Clare Walsh, Ciara Staunton
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Invited Essays: Mobility

South Africa: Validation, Flexible Pathways and Systems, Inclusivity, Mobility

Heidi Bolton, Julia Staitai
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Measuring Democracy in Design for Migrant and Refugee Skills Recognition

Deb Carr
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Charting a Course Forward: Bringing the Top-Down and The Bottom-Up Together in Recognition, Validation, and Accreditation (RVA) for Migrants and Refugees

Katie Jones, Raúl Valdés Cotera
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Why Don’t Dutch Teacher Education Long-Time Students Complete Their Qualification?: Validating Work-Based Learning Experiences for Equivalence

Jannie Lensen-Botter
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Invited Essays: Skills

VPL: The Centrality of Knowledge Justification to Prior Learning Discourse

David Burns
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"It's Still Quite a Bit Puzzling...": The Dutch Approach to Validation at NCOI University of Applied Sciences

Ruud Duvekot, Madeleine Farla, Irma Kolkman
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Recognition of Prior Learning in Irish Higher Education: A Qualitative Study

Deirdre Goggin, Margaret Linehan, Irene Sheridan
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Ready, Set, and Go for Validation!

Thomas Nylund
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What Are the Underlying Forces in RPL? What Values, Beliefs, and Assumptions Are Significant?

Phil O'Leary
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Validation, Employability, and Volunteering in Spain: The Case of the VOL+ Program

Maida Pieper, Beatriz Cedena
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Adult Learners in Transition: New Careers Through Merit-Based Education

Charlotte Troelsen, Mette Beck
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Conference Panels

Plenary Panel: Democracy and VPL

Borhene Chakroun, Julie Reddy, Diego Piazza-Almudi, Dae Joong Kang, Pauline Boivin
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Plenary Panel: Connecting Learning Across Continents

Raúl Valdés-Cotera, Christine Hofmann, Ernesto Villalba-Garcia, Andrina Wafer, Brikena Xhomaqi
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Plenary Panel: The Rudder that Sails the Ship: Exploring Policy Responses

Borhene Chakroun, Aline Juerges, Orla Lynch Lynch, Rhianna Rogers, Nan Travers
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Plenary Panel: Closing Session

Gina Ebner, Susan Forseille, Alan Mandell, Irene Sheridan, Nan Travers, Andrina Wafer
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Resources

The Term 'Prior Learning Assessment'

PLAIO Editors
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Making Fewer Strangers: Networking Networks

PLAIO Editors
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CEDEFOP (European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training)

PLAIO Editors

Announcements

PLAIO Webinar: Late Spring 2025

PLAIO Editors
Call for Contributions PLAIO#9

PLAIO Editors
Call for Contributions: PLAIO #10

PLAIO Editors

Editorial Board

Editorial Board

PLAIO Editors
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Advisory Board

Advisory Board

PLAIO Editors
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