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Title: Learning for the professions : lessons from linking international research projects
Related: Higher education, Vol. 56, No. 2, p.129-148
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-007-9094-0
Publisher: Springer
Date: 2008
FoR/RFCD Code(s): 130100 Education Systems 130300 Specialist Studies in Education
Author/Creator: Dahlgren, Madeleine Abrandt
Author/Creator: Reid, Anna
Author/Creator: Dahlgren, Lars Owe
Author/Creator: Petocz, Peter
Description: At the core of higher education is the experience of students whose focus for learning is often directed towards their future employability. In this paper, we explore the intersections between two large international research projects involving over 500 students. Interviews with students yielded their conceptions of learning and work in specific discipline and professional areas. Analysis of the Swedish and Australian data sets showed the important interplay between students’ individual ideas about learning and future work with their workplace. A meta-analysis of the two projects highlights the utility of higher education for students’ future working life and suggests ways in which institutions and policy makers can critique current practice in a way that will incline curriculum and teaching development towards professional formation.
Description: 20 page(s)
Subject Keyword: 130100 Education Systems
Subject Keyword: 130300 Specialist Studies in Education
Subject Keyword: higher education
Subject Keyword: working life
Subject Keyword: transition
Subject Keyword: qualitative analysis
Subject Keyword: meta-analysis
Subject Keyword: professional entity
Subject Keyword: journeymen
Resource Type: journal article
Organisation: Macquarie University. Learning and Teaching Centre
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Statistics

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/76899
Identifier: ISSN:1573-174X
Identifier: mq-rm-2007009556
Language: eng
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