Developing Learning Professionals: Integrating Experiences in University and Practice Settings

✍ Scribed by Stephen Billett, Amanda Henderson (auth.), Stephen Billett, Amanda Henderson (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 233
• Series: Professional and Practice-based Learning 7
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 and partnerships of varying kinds, and a consolidated set of perspectives.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Front Matter....Pages 41-41
Promoting Professional Learning: Integrating Experiences in University and Practice Settings....Pages 1-19
Integrating Experiences in Workplace and University Settings: A Conceptual Perspective....Pages 21-40
Front Matter....Pages 41-41
Preparing Nurses and Engaging Preceptors....Pages 43-57
Targeted Preparation for Clinical Practice....Pages 59-82
Optimising the Follow-through Experience for Midwifery Learning....Pages 83-100
A Considered Curriculum for Preparing Human Services Practitioners: Structuring Circles of Learning and Change....Pages 101-118
Reflective Learning Groups for Student Nurses....Pages 119-130
Maximising the Integration of Medical and Nursing Students in Clinical Learning Environments: An Australian Perspective....Pages 131-148
Career Development Learning Frameworks for Work-Integrated Learning....Pages 149-165
Front Matter....Pages 167-167
Scoping Work-Integrated Learning Purposes, Practices and Issues....Pages 169-186
Health-Service Organisation, Clinical Team Composition and Student Learning....Pages 187-200
Promoting Professional Learning: Individual and Institutional Practices and Imperatives....Pages 201-213
Back Matter....Pages 215-220

✦ Subjects

Professional & Vocational Education; Higher Education; Medical Education