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Title: WACE Asia Pacific Conference Rethinking the Centre and the Margins in Researching Work and Learning


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WACE Asia Pacific ConferenceRethinking the
Centre and the Marginsin Researching Work
and Learning
  • Sydney, Australia
  • 2008

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ACENWACE 08
  • Work, Education and Knowledge
  • A Case Study of Educational Partnerships
  • Stephen Crump
  • CENTRAL COAST CAMPUSES
  • UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE, AUSTRALIA
  • TAFE NSW HUNTER INSTITUTE

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INTRODUCTION
  • 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.

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Overview
  • 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

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WIL 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
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What do we mean by WIL?
Authentic, relevant and meaningfully assessed
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Real 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).

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Policy, 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.

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WIL _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.

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EXPANDING 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.

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WIL 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.
  • hands on

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WIL 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.

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RESHAPING 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).

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WIL 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.

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WIL 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.
  • Childcare

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WIL PROGRAMS _at_ UoN - CC
  • Podiatry
  • Oral Health
  • Sports and Ex Sc
  • Business Accounting
  • Teacher education
  • Nursing
  • Psychology
  • drama and music?

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WIL and Future Issues
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WIL 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.
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WIL 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.
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Thank You!
Questions? Stephen.Crump_at_ newcastle.edu.au
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