Overview
- First comprehensive volume to identify and delineate the educational worth of students' engagement in practice based experiences
- Advances conceptions of what constitutes the integration of such experiences in higher education
- Informs how higher education curriculum might be organised to effectively provide and utilise students’ experiences in practice settings
Part of the book series: Professional and Practice-based Learning (PPBL, volume 13)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book advances understandings about and practices for effectively integrating practice-based (e.g. workplace) experiences in higher education programs. This issue is becoming of increasing salient because higher education programs globally are increasingly focussing on preparing students for specific occupations. Such imperatives are reflected in the cooperative education movement in North America, the foundation degree programs of the United Kingdom, the work integrated learning approach within Australian higher education and initiatives in a range of other countries. There are clear and growing expectations that graduates from such should be able to move smoothly into being effective in their occupational practice. These expectations rise from the imperatives and interest of government, employers, community and students themselves. The book achieves a number of important goals. Firstly, it identifies and delineates the educational worth of students and engagement in practice-based experiences and their integration within their programs of study. Secondly, it advances conceptions of the integration of such experiences that is essential to inform how these programs might be enacted. Thirdly, drawing on the findings of two teaching fellowships, it proposed bases and propositions for how experiences in higher education programs might be organised and augmented to support effective learning. Fourthly pedagogic practices seen to be effective in maximising the learning from those practice experiences and integrating them within the curriculum are identified and discussed. Fifthly, a particular focus is given to students’ personal epistemologies and how these might be developed and directed towards supporting effective learning within practice settings and the integration of that learning in their university programs.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Integrating Practice-based Experiences into Higher Education
Authors: Stephen Billett
Series Title: Professional and Practice-based Learning
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7230-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7229-7Published: 24 July 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0003-8Published: 23 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-7230-3Published: 15 July 2015
Series ISSN: 2210-5549
Series E-ISSN: 2210-5557
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 258
Topics: Professional & Vocational Education, Higher Education, Learning & Instruction