Developing learning professionals : integrating experiences in university and practice settings

In higher education institutions across the globe, there is a growing interest in integrating classroom learning with experience in practice settings. This interest is the result of an increased emphasis on courses that prepare students for specific occupations in the hopes that upon graduation students will be job-ready.

Developing Learning Professionals: Integrating Experiences in University and Practice Settings explores how the integration of student experiences across university and practice settings might best be used to produce college graduates who are adept, critical practitioners. To do so, it draws on the findings of a series of projects in Australia that investigated diverse aspects of work-related learning. Through these projects, a range of scholars and researchers consider different aspects of this educational initiative within the same national higher education context. They address pedagogic and curriculum practices, institutional arrangements andpartnerships of varying kinds, and a consolidated set of perspectives.

Stephen Billett and Amanda HendersonStephen BillettJennifer M. Newton and Stephen Billett and Brian Jolly and Cherene OckerbyElizabeth Molloy and Jenny KeatingLinda Sweet and Pauline GloverJennifer CartmelJennifer M. NewtonAmanda Henderson and Heather AlexanderPeter McIlveen and Sally Brooks and Anna Lichtenberg and Martin Smith and Peter Torjul and Joanne TylerDeborah Peach and Natalie GambleMaree O'Keefe and Sue McAllister and Ieva StupansAmanda Henderson

1 Promoting Professional Learning: Integrating Experiences in University and Practice Settings	p. 1
2 Integrating Experiences in Workplace and University Settings: A Conceptual Perspective	p. 21
Part I Integrating Practice and University Experiences: Curriculum and Pedagogy Practices
3 Preparing Nurses and Engaging Preceptors	p. 43
4 Targeted Preparation for Clinical Practice	p. 59
5 Optimising the Follow-through Experience for Midwifery Learning	p. 83
6 A Considered Curriculum for Preparing Human Services Practitioners: Structuring Circles of Learning and Change	p. 101
7 Reflective Learning Groups for Student Nurses	p. 119
8 Maximising the Integration of Medical and Nursing Students in Clinical Learning Environments: An Australian Perspective	p. 131
9 Career Development Learning Frameworks for Work-Integrated Learning	p. 149
Part II Institutional Practices and Imperatives
10 Scoping Work-Integrated Learning Purposes, Practices and Issues	p. 169
11 Health-Service Organisation, Clinical Team Composition and Student Learning	p. 187
12 Promoting Professional Learning: Individual and Institutional Practices and Imperatives	p. 201
Name Index	p. 215
Subject Index	p. 217

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