Integrating Practice-based Experiences into Higher Education

• Main Author: Billett, Stephen (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Professional and Practice-based Learning, 13
• Subjects: Education.; Higher education.; Professional & Vocational Education.; Higher Education.; Learning & Instruction.

This book advances understandings about and practices for effectively integrating practice-based (e.g. workplace) experiences in higher education programs. This issue is becoming of increasing salient because higher education programs globally are increasingly focussing on preparing students for spe...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter One: Integrating practice-based experiences with higher education
• Chapter Two: Purposes of higher education: Contemporary and perennial emphases.- Chapter Three: Educational purposes of integrating experiences in practice and university settings
• Chapter Four: Conceptions of integrating students’ experiences
• Chapter Five: Learning and teaching projects
• Chapter Six: Key findings about integrating experiences
• Chapter Seven: Curriculum considerations: The integration of experiences
• Chapter Eight: Pedagogic practices supporting the integration of experiences
• Chapter Nine: Developing students’ personal epistemologies.