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Andrew MiddletonHead of Academic Practice & Learning Innovation
Learning habitRe-imagining PPDP - A Context for Conversation, Imagination and Connection
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"[The] changing external higher education landscape; the changing needs of employers and the changing demands and expectations of our students, necessitate a step change in the way the University supports the transition of students into and through its undergraduate and postgraduate provision and beyond."
Learning and Teaching Strategy 2020
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‘The best thing any education can bequeath is the habit of reflection and questioning.’ AC Grayling, 2000
So why is it so difficult to engage our students with reflection and PPDP?
Simon Powell CC BY-2.0
Based on: Dacre-Pool, L and Sewell, P, (2010), Moving from conceptual ambiguity to operational clarity: Employability, enterprise and entrepreneurship in higher education, Education and Training, 52, 1, 89-94. Also online
Employability
DegreeKnowledge,
Understanding& Skills
CareerDevelopment
Learning
ExperienceWork and Life
Generic Skills EmotionalIntelligence
Reflection and Evaluatione.g. PPDP
Self-efficacy Self-confidence
Self-esteem
Recognise Lifewide & Lifelong Context
Learning ecologies
Developing the Habit
Transform the ways in which students engage with, reflect on,
and record their journeys to ‘becoming professional’.
Change the discourse
Ashley Holmes (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Finding the Habit – look at how people relate to each other
Develop the idea of course meaning community and experience
Reassess thinking about engagementFoster habits that develop belonging, identity and ‘becoming professional’.
Create the space
An integrated and lifewide viewof PPDP and employability
PPDP needs to be habitual and develop thinking approaches that are fit for life
PPDP needs to be established as relevant and core during pre-enrolment
Course-long and course-wide engagement with PPDP means that PPDP becomes a key tool in tutoring
Daniel Go CC BY-NC-2.0
PPDP needs to be concretised - removed from the abstract and made real
Re-imagining Personal & Professional Development Planning requires
Habitual learner engagement from first contactreflecting on action in and out of the classroom
The SEP enabled us to have an imaginative conversation as a universityIt provided focus through• Externality and value• Creativity• Finding and reaching out to existing special interests• Developing a resource• Providing us with a visible reference point for innovation
Aliza Schaffer (CC BY-ND 2.0)
A Context for Conversation, Imagination and Connection
What difference did the SEP make?
What have we done since?
• High profile Venture Matrix unit as key interprofessional and external learning agency now integral
• Develop value around (e.g.):– Co-curriculum– ‘Belonging’ and identity– Peer learning– Tutoring– Transition agenda
• The Connected U toolkit – developing and maintaining a professional profile with social media [presentation layer]
• Social media portfolios and e-portfolio [development layer]
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