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dc.contributor.convenorProf Erica Smith
dc.contributor.authorSmith, Jude
dc.contributor.authorSmith, Raymond
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T14:07:43Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T14:07:43Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.date.modified2011-03-21T07:21:12Z
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/37441
dc.description.abstractIn 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.publicationstatusYes
dc.format.extent81498 bytes
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherAVETRA
dc.publisher.placeCrows Nest, NSW
dc.publisher.urihttp://avetra.org.au/pages/conference-archives-2010.html
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofconferencename13th Annual Conference of the Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association
dc.relation.ispartofconferencetitleVET Research: Leading and Responding in Turbulent Times
dc.relation.ispartofdatefrom2010-04-07
dc.relation.ispartofdateto2010-04-09
dc.relation.ispartoflocationSurfers Paradise
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEducation not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode139999
dc.titleWork Integrated Learning: An industry partners' perspective
dc.typeConference output
dc.type.descriptionE2 - Conferences (Non Refereed)
dc.type.codeE - 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.issued2010
gro.hasfulltextFull Text
gro.griffith.authorSmith, Raymond J.


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