dc.contributor.convenor | Prof Erica Smith | |
dc.contributor.author | Smith, Jude | |
dc.contributor.author | Smith, Raymond | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-05-03T14:07:43Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-05-03T14:07:43Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2010 | |
dc.date.modified | 2011-03-21T07:21:12Z | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/37441 | |
dc.description.abstract | In recent years the Australian tertiary education sector may be said to be undergoing a vocational transformation. Vocationalism, that is, an emphasis on learning directed at work related outcomes is increasingly shaping the nature of tertiary education. This paper reports some findings to date of a project that seeks to identify the key issues faced by students, industry and university partners engaged in the provision of WIL within an undergraduate program offered by the Creative Industries faculty of a major metropolitan university. Here, those findings are focussed on some of the motivations and concerns of the industry partners who make their workplaces available for student internships. Businesses are not universities and do not perceive of themselves as primarily learning institutions. However, their perspectives of work integrated learning and their contributions to it need to understand more fully at practical and conceptual levels of learning provision. This paper and the findings presented here suggest that the diversity of industry partner motivations and concerns contributing to WIL provision requires that universities understand and appreciate those partners as contributors with them to a culture of learning provision and support. These industry partner contribution need to be understood as valuing work as learning, not work as something that needs to be integrated with learning to make that learning more authentic and thereby more vocational. | |
dc.description.publicationstatus | Yes | |
dc.format.extent | 81498 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | AVETRA | |
dc.publisher.place | Crows Nest, NSW | |
dc.publisher.uri | http://avetra.org.au/pages/conference-archives-2010.html | |
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublication | N | |
dc.relation.ispartofconferencename | 13th Annual Conference of the Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association | |
dc.relation.ispartofconferencetitle | VET Research: Leading and Responding in Turbulent Times | |
dc.relation.ispartofdatefrom | 2010-04-07 | |
dc.relation.ispartofdateto | 2010-04-09 | |
dc.relation.ispartoflocation | Surfers Paradise | |
dc.rights.retention | Y | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Education not elsewhere classified | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 139999 | |
dc.title | Work Integrated Learning: An industry partners' perspective | |
dc.type | Conference output | |
dc.type.description | E2 - Conferences (Non Refereed) | |
dc.type.code | E - Conference Publications | |
gro.rights.copyright | © 2010 AVETRA. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Use hypertext link for access to the publisher's website. | |
gro.date.issued | 2010 | |
gro.hasfulltext | Full Text | |
gro.griffith.author | Smith, Raymond J. | |