Conferenza su modelli europi di Work Based Learning nella formazione universitaria Conference on Wor

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Conferenza su modelli europi di Work Based
Learning nella formazione universitariaConferenc
e on Work Based Learning Approaches in Higher
Education Florence, November
30th December 1st 2006
Instituto della Ss. Annunziata Piazzale Poggio
Imperiale, 1

• Helen Corkill
• University of Bedfordshire, UK

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Work-based Learning and Personal Development
Planning integration or separation within the
Foundation Degree curriculum?

• From Once Upon a Time to Happily Ever
  After? 1
• 1 from Evans, N from Boud Solomon (2003), p.
  61

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Once upon a time

• Foundation Degrees?

• PDP?

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enhancing employability.late C20/early C 21
from the lecture room into the workplace...
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Oxford University from C11 from the workplace
into the lecture room
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Victorian England Joseph Lancaster and the
struggle between work and learning

• Courtesy British Schools Museum

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Foundation Degrees

• Introduced in 2001
• First new UK HE qualification for 25 years
• 2 years full-time study (or equivalent part-time)
  
• 240 UK credits
• Widening participation
• Work-based
• Employers involved in design, delivery,
  assessment and review

• Foundation Degree Fashion and Textile Design
  end of year show 2006

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Foundation Degrees

• Introduced in 2001
• First new UK HE qualification for 25 years
• 2 years full-time study (or equivalent part-time)
  
• 240 UK credits
• Widening participation
• Work-based
• Employers involved in design, delivery,
  assessment and review

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Personal Development Planning

• PDP is 'a structured and supported process
  undertaken by an individual to reflect upon their
  own learning, performance and / or achievement
  and to plan for their personal, educational and
  career development'.
• become more effective, independent and confident
  self-directed learners understand how they are
  learning and relate their learning to a wider
  context improve their general skills for study
  and career management articulate their personal
  goals and evaluate progress towards their
  achievement and encourage a positive attitude to
  learning throughout life
• QAA

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what should happen did happen and if it had
not happened this tale would never have been
told
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work-based learning?

• work experience?
• work shadowing?
• work placements?
• work-related learning?
• workplace learning?
• work-based learning?

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Work / learning relationship
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Employer contribution
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PDP provision
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PDP and work related activity
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hardships to enlightenment

• they travelled through many lands and saw many
  cities and went through many hardships before
  they got to the place where the enlightened king
  lived.

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and happily ever after?