ACEN/CRADLE Webinar: Professional identity development and the role of work-integrated learning and communities of practice

  • Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024, 9:30 am - 11:30 am
  • Location: Online
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  • Professor Michael Tomlinson Professor in Higher Education, Work & Employability at the Southampton Education School, University of Southampton.
  • Professor Denise Jackson Professor in Employability and Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) and the Director of WIL in the School of Business and Law at Edith Cowan University.
  • Dr Thi Kim Anh Dang Senior Lecturer in TESOL and Languages Education at the School of Curriculum, Teaching & Inclusive Education, Faculty of Education, Monash University

This webinar will explore the nature and role of professional identity in higher education students, drawing on recent conceptualisations of this relatively underexplored dimension of individual employability.  It will discuss factors that influence professional identity development, including socialisation into work culture and practices, self-authorship, reconciliation of students’ multiple selves and the role of personal capital resources. The session will draw on practical examples of how to foster professional identity in higher education students, including work-integrated learning and communities of practice.

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