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dc.contributor.authorBillett, S
dc.contributor.authorOvens, C
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T12:13:01Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T12:13:01Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.date.modified2008-12-17T01:00:56Z
dc.identifier.issn1363-9080
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/13639080701314613
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/18866
dc.description.abstractAs many, perhaps most, high school students engage in paid part-time employment, there is available in any Australian senior school classroom a range of work experiences that can be used to assist students to consider and reflect on working life and post-school pathways. Furthermore, these experiences are more readily available and authentic than those provided through school organised work experience programs. In order to understand the effectiveness of such experiences, students and teachers in six schools across two Australian states participated in processes of guided reflection on these experiences. Consistently, across cohorts of students in all of these schools, the authentic workplace experiences of paid part-time work were identified as assisting in securing a range of educational purposes associated with students' learning about work, the world of work, and post-school options and pathways. Key variables in the likely success of this initiative were the facilitative capacity of teachers, their knowledge and valuing of working life outside schools and students' capacities and readiness to engage in reflection on their paid work.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.format.extent211845 bytes
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.publisher.urihttp://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/cjew
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom75
dc.relation.ispartofpageto90
dc.relation.ispartofissue2
dc.relation.ispartofjournalJournal of Education and Work
dc.relation.ispartofvolume20
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchSpecialist studies in education
dc.subject.fieldofresearchSocial work
dc.subject.fieldofresearchSociology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3904
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4409
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4410
dc.titleLearning about work, working life and post-school options: Guiding students' reflections on paid part-time work
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Education and Professional Studies
gro.rights.copyright© 2007 Taylor & Francis. This is the author-manuscript version of the paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal link for access to the definitive, published version.
gro.date.issued2007
gro.hasfulltextFull Text
gro.griffith.authorBillett, Stephen R.


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