Developing Learning Professionals

This is the first volume to address work integrated learning as it applies to university education and for the professions. It details projects that are seeking to establish the significance of integrating experiences in practice and academic settings.

In higher education institutions across the globe, there is a growing interest in integrating classroom learning with experience in practice settings. This interest is the result of an increased emphasis on courses that prepare students for specific occupations in the hopes that upon graduation students will be job-ready.

Developing Learning Professionals: Integrating Experiences in University and Practice Settings explores how the integration of student experiences across university and practice settings might best be used to produce college graduates who are adept, critical practitioners. To do so, it draws on the findings of a series of projects in Australia that investigated diverse aspects of work-related learning. Through these projects, a range of scholars and researchers consider different aspects of this educational initiative within the same national higher education context. They address pedagogic and curriculum practices, institutional arrangements andpartnerships of varying kinds, and a consolidated set of perspectives.

Addresses a current point of world-wide interest in higher education integrating experiences in practice setting Offers a range of accounts from diverse disciplinary fields of practice Reports the processes and outcomes of interventions aiming to improve the higher education experience

Contenu

1. Work-integrated learning: Introduction and orientation (Billett and Henderson).- 2. Conceptual foundations (Billett).- 3. Preparing nurses and engaging preceptors (Newton, Billett, Jolly and Ockerby).- 4. Integrating extensive practice (Molloy & Keating).- 5. Utilising follow throughs in midwifery (Sweet & Glover).- 6. Preparing Human services practitioners (Cartmel) .- 7. Reflective workshops for student nurses (Newton).- 8. Engaging and integrating medical and nursing students (Henderson & Alexander).- 9. Career Development Learning (McIlveen, Brooks, Lichtenberg, Smith, Torjul & Tyler).- 10. Scoping work integrated learning purposes, practices and outcomes (Peach & Gamble).- 11. Health service organisation and student clinical workplace learning opportunities (O'Keefe, McAllister, Stupans).- 12. Institutional practices and imperatives: integrating learning experiences (Henderson).