Learning about Work, Working Life and Post-School Options: Guiding Students' Reflections on Paid Part-Time Work

Autor/inn/en	Billett, Stephen; Ovens, Carolyn
Titel	Learning about Work, Working Life and Post-School Options: Guiding Students' Reflections on Paid Part-Time Work
Quelle	In: Journal of Education and Work, 20 (2007) 2, S.75-90 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1363-9080
Schlagwörter	Part Time Employment; Work Experience; Vocational Education; Education Work Relationship; Foreign Countries; High School Students; Secondary School Curriculum; Teacher Role; Job Placement; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Part-time employment; Teilzeitbeschäftigung; Employment experience; Job experience; Occupational experience; Berufserfahrung; Ausbildung; Berufsbildung; Ausland; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Lehrerrolle; Employment service; Employment services; Arbeitsvermittlung; Australien
Abstract	As many, perhaps most, high-school students engage in paid part-time employment, there is available in any Australian senior school classroom a range of work experiences that can be used to assist students to consider and reflect on working life and post-school pathways. Furthermore, these experiences are more readily available and authentic than those provided through school-organised work experience programmes. In order to understand the effectiveness of such experiences, students and teachers in six schools across two Australian states participated in processes of guided reflection on these experiences. Consistently, across cohorts of students in all of these schools, the authentic workplace experiences of paid part-time work were identified as assisting in securing a range of educational purposes associated with students' learning about work, the world of work and post-school options and pathways. Key variables in the likely success of this initiative were the facilitative capacity of teachers, their knowledge and valuing of working life outside schools and students' capacities and readiness to engage in reflection on their paid work. (Contains 2 tables.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10