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Graduate’s Learning Across Educational and Professional Settings: Outlining an Approach

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Given the significant interest that the employability of graduates has generated amongst policy-makers and within the media, a field of research focusing on these issues has been developing in different countries. Within this field, analysing the professional trajectories of graduates has been the leading aim of research, predominantly considering employability as getting (or not getting) a job and evaluating the match (or mismatch) between job and education. Meanwhile, other issues such as the learning involved in the transition from higher education into the world of work have been given much less attention.

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  1. Faculdade De Ciencias E Technologia, Universidade Nova De Lisboa, Lisbon, 2829-516, Caparica, Portugal

    Mariana Gaio Alves

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  1. Southampton Education School, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

    Michael Tomlinson

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    Leonard Holmes

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Alves, M.G. (2017). Graduate’s Learning Across Educational and Professional Settings: Outlining an Approach. In: Tomlinson, M., Holmes, L. (eds) Graduate Employability in Context. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57168-7_8

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