Practice-based Learning in Higher Education

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Practice-Based Learning in Higher Education: Jostling Cultures

   • Monica Kennedy, Stephen Billett, Silvia Gherardi, Laurie Grealish

   Pages 1-13

3. The Practices of Using and Integrating Practice-Based Learning in Higher Education

   • Stephen Billett

   Pages 15-30

4. Knowledge Claims and Values in Higher Education

   • Monica Kennedy

   Pages 31-45

5. Developing Critical Moral Agency Through Workplace Engagement

   • Matthew Campbell, Karsten E. Zegwaard

   Pages 47-64

6. Standards and Standardization

   • Catherine Hungerford, Patricia Kench

   Pages 65-83

7. Professional Standards in Curriculum Design: A Socio-Technical Analysis of Nursing Competency Standards

   • Laurie Grealish

   Pages 85-98

8. The Role of Epistemology in Practice-Based Learning: The Case of Artifacts

   • Jordan Williams, Jackie Walkington

   Pages 99-110

9. E-learning as Organizing Practice in Higher Education

   • Marcelo de Souza Bispo

   Pages 111-126

10. Practice-Based Learning of Novices in Higher Education: Legitimate Peripheral Participation (LPP) Revisited

    • Assunta Viteritti

    Pages 127-140

11. Practice-Based Learning in Community Contexts: A Collaborative Exploration of Pedagogical Principles

    • Judith Smith, Natasha Shaw, Jennifer Tredinnick

    Pages 141-157

12. Managing Competing Demands in the Delivery of Work Integrated Learning: An Institutional Case Study

    • Heather Smigiel, Ceri Macleod, Helen Stephenson

    Pages 159-172

13. Conclusions: Towards an Understanding of Education as a Social Practice

    • Silvia Gherardi

    Pages 173-181

14. Back Matter

    Pages 183-189

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This book addresses issues confronting universities’ attempts to integrate practice-based learning in higher education curriculum, yet which reveals the jostling of cultures which exist within and amongst the academy, industry, government and professional bodies and other educational providers. The book engages theory in practices, and draws upon research highlighting the issues and transactions that emerge with implementation of work integrated learning arrangements as uses these resources to discuss and develop further both theoretical premises and procedural contributions. The illustrative cases derive utilise metaphors of culture in their exploration of the epistemologies, structures, politics, histories and rituals which constrain program opportunity and success in making these advances. The volume comprises two main sections, the first laying out focal issues in the integration of learning and work in higher education. This section presents the issues at multiple levels of analysis and in theoretical terms. This section provides a foundation for the second section of the book which introduces a number of research studies illustrative of the issues theorised in the first. The cases highlight the practice of workplace and higher education pedagogy. They provide thick descriptions of experiences of integration and are explicitly focused on the implementation of work integrated programs in higher education. The volume commences with an introductory chapter which sets out the range of issues addressed both theoretically and through illustration in the book and a final chapter critically reviews the contributions and acts to provide a cohesive picture of the learning practices of work and higher education and the possibilities of their integration.

• curriculum design
• e-learning
• higher education
• pedagogy for the workplace
• practice-based learning
• professional education
• professional learning
• professional standards
• professional training
• vocational education
• vocational training
• work integrated learning
• work-based learning
• workplace learning
• learning and instruction

• University of Canberra, Bruce, Australia

  Monica Kennedy

• Griffith University, Nathan, Australia

  Stephen Billett

• University of Trento, Trento, Italy

  Silvia Gherardi

• Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia

  Laurie Grealish

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