Making Arts Work

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Macleod, Jock
Chamberlain, Susanna
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World Association for Cooperative Education

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2011
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The Bachelor of Arts has traditionally provided a liberal education, emphasising the development of critical and other transportable skills in a range of humanities disciplines. One challenge for humanities educators in the 21st century is to find ways to bridge this tradition with the demands that graduates be prepared for the workplace. The School of Humanities at Griffith University has developed a suite of courses1 in its BA, called the Social Enterprise signature experience, which incorporates a core stream of subjects into which a work-integrated learning experience is embedded. The rationale for choosing social enterprises for work-integrated learning is the many opportunities they provide to articulate with the wide range of disciplines taught in a BA, and their capacity to resonate with the broad idealism of BA students. This paper offers an overview of the program since its inception in 2008, presents a reflection upon the theoretical and pedagogical issues involved, and examines the impact of this innovation on the students.

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2011 WACE World Conference - Conference Proceedings

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© 2011 jointly held by WACE and the authors. The attached file is posted here with permission of the copyright owners for your personal use only. No further distribution permitted. For information about this conference please refer to the publisher's website or contact the authors.

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Humanities and Social Sciences Curriculum and Pedagogy (excl. Economics, Business and Management)

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