Title: WACE Asia Pacific Conference Rethinking the Centre and the Margins in Researching Work and Learning
1WACE Asia Pacific ConferenceRethinking the
Centre and the Marginsin Researching Work
and Learning
2ACENWACE 08
- Work, Education and Knowledge
- A Case Study of Educational Partnerships
- Stephen Crump
- CENTRAL COAST CAMPUSES
- UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE, AUSTRALIA
- TAFE NSW HUNTER INSTITUTE
3INTRODUCTION
- Relationships being enhanced between work,
education and knowledge. - Work-based education in higher education is not
necessarily a new event. - Assumed differences between University and VET
have been the undoing of attempts to reduce the
distance providers and sectors. - Multi-sector partnerships provide a broader focus
for partner organizations as well as providing
benefits to the students and industry. - For this presentation, WIL does not necessarily
mean worksite-based.
4Overview
- Generation Y fails to see the relevance of what
they are being taught, by lecturers who fail to
understand why young people are not interested. - Most Uni students draw
- directly from their degree for
- obtaining employment
- Students want their course
- to be relevant to their chosen
- career, especially now they
- see themselves as customers.
- Bachelor Communications
5WIL Criteria / Definitions
- real-world experiences providing opportunities
for students to apply theoretical knowledge,
develop and consolidate transferable skills,
career development competencies, reflect on
practice, and develop an understanding of the
relevant professions or related sectors. (NAGCAS,
Adapted from QUT).
Oral Health Clinic and Nursing Home practice
6What do we mean by WIL?
Authentic, relevant and meaningfully assessed
7Real world
- Work-based learning, work experience, practice /
practicum, clinical placement / practice,
community-based learning / project, co-operative
education, service-learning, professional skills
program, work / job shadowing, work-experience,
vacation work, internship, apprenticeship,
sandwich course, industry project, cadetship,
traineeship, enterprise project, experiential
learning (ALTC).
8Policy, Practice WIL
- "A National Internship Scheme".
- Australian Diploma Supplement.
- www.une.edu.au/chemp/projects/dipsup/index.php
- Innovative Research Universities Australia WIL
project. - Australian Learning Teaching Council case
studies incorporating career development
learning. www.usq.edu.au/nagcascarrickproject/ - Macquarie University Australian Volunteers
International.
9WIL _at_ UoN
- WIL is perceived by students to be useful to
their purposes and is perceived by staff one way
to help develop a creative intelligence. - WIL is a key component of the way in which the
UoN is building distinction through performance
improvement, institutional capability and a
better fit to community, industry, business and
professions. - Called 'work-based experiential learning at the
UoN. Part of the work the UoN will do before the
end of 2008 is to better define what WIL means
for us.
10EXPANDING WIL _at_ UoN
- The University of Newcastles strategic plan
has as the very first goal and target - We will incorporate an opportunity for
work-based, experiential learning opportunities
into all undergraduate programs so that our
graduates are flexible and ready for the
workplace. - The measure for the success of this strategy is
the percentage of undergraduate programs that
include work-based experiential learning by 2011,
plus graduate employment rates and starting
salaries in 2011.
11WIL VET HEd
- Multi-sector campus at Ourimbah on the Central
Coast of New South Wales. - TAFE NSW Hunter Institute courses are strongly
engaged with work-based learning. - Professional privilege of knowledge is just as
important to VET teachers as to university
lecturers.
12WIL Community/Service
- Strategic Priority 4 is
- We will foster partnerships that enrich and
develop our communities in mutually beneficial
ways. - with the first goal and target
- We will offer further opportunities for students
to engage in community-based learning and
leadership activities.
13RESHAPING WIL
- WIL means real experience as part of each
students program of study, and actual
developmental learning related to that field of
study. - Knowing an experienced profession / workplace is
one way to give theoretical knowledge a more
complete form (phronesis practical wisdom).
14WIL EXPERIENCES
- WIL is perceived by students to be more useful to
their purposes and is perceived by staff as one
way to help develop creative intelligence. - WIL is a key component of the way in which the
UoN is building distinction through performance
improvement, institutional capability and a
better fit to community, industry, business and
professions.
15WIL PARTNERSHIPS
- YERRA
- Teaching and training for early childhood
education, from a basic VET certificate through
to under-graduate degree and research degrees. - VET Uni students learn and work together with
TAFE and Uni staff. - This includes experiencing real-life workplace
situations that are provided through a free
child-minding service.
16WIL PROGRAMS _at_ UoN - CC
- Podiatry
- Oral Health
- Sports and Ex Sc
- Business Accounting
- Teacher education
- Nursing
- Psychology
- drama and music?
17WIL and Future Issues
18WIL Work and Knowing
() such training may develop a machine-like
skill in routine lines (it is far from being sure
to do so, since it may develop distaste, aversion
and carelessness), but it will be at the expense
of those qualities of alert observation and
coherent and ingenious planning which make an
occupation intellectually rewarding. Vocational
Aspects of Education, Ch. 23, p. 310, Dewey, 1916
/ 1944 emphasis in the original.
19WIL The Missing Link?
An occupation is the only thing which balances
the distinctive capacity of an individual with
his(or her) social service. (Dewey, 1916 / 1944,
p. 308). The problem is not that of making the
schools an adjunct to manufacture and commerce,
but of utilising the factors of industry to make
school life more active, more full of immediate
meaning, more connected to out-of-school
experience. WIL involves productive and
authentic pedagogies that shape educational
experiences to assist each individua find a
congenial calling, as well as not wasting human
talent.
20Thank You!
Questions? Stephen.Crump_at_ newcastle.edu.au