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Learning and teaching strategies for making a good living.

Learning and teaching strategies for making a good living. Follow your head or your heart?. Jeanne Booth and Paul Hacking. Top 10 reasons for going to university. Can you predict the future based on what has gone before?.

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Learning and teaching strategies for making a good living.

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  1. Learning and teaching strategies for making a good living. Follow your head or your heart? Jeanne Booth and Paul Hacking

  2. Top 10 reasons for going to university

  3. Can you predict the future based on what has gone before? • Millennium bug 2000? Massive demand for IT graduates followed by slump

  4. Unpredictability of the economy • For the last 10 years there has been a buoyant demand for construction related disciplines • Following recession lack of opportunities for surveyors, construction managers, civil engin.

  5. Teaching • Has moved from being very unpopular choice for graduates (particularly males) 2 years ago to the most popular profession today in UK

  6. Most graduates do not directly use their degree discipline in their job • Psychology (undergraduate) only about 20% enter related jobs • Law (undergraduate) the majority now enter non law jobs

  7. Long term picture more optimistic • For some sectors such as ‘creative’ disciplines the 6 month destination survey is not a useful indicator of a future career whereas a 3 or 5 year survey can show a progression (Elias & Purcell)

  8. Following the heart? If students are enjoying what they are doing they are more likely to: • persevere • seek out opportunities • become more creative & flexible (‘flow’, Csikszentmihalyi,1990, ‘broaden-and-build’, Frederickson, 2001) Desire to improve job opportunities is about more than salary prospects

  9. Today’s learners will have 10-14 jobs by the time they are 38

  10. Half of what a technical student learns in his/her first year will be out of date by their third year. out of date

  11. New UK graduates face... • Average £16,000 plus debt • Greater competition for fewer ‘graduate’ jobs • Technology breaking down need for large organisations and increasing the kinds of work that can be accomplished as tasks or projects anytime, anywhere, at the best price

  12. Generation Y Want good work • Makes a difference • Shared values • Flat structures • Self-development • Ethical & sustainable operation • Sharing learning & working in teams

  13. Neither head or heart but balance • In-depth knowledge of a favourite subject • How to apply knowledge • What makes a good life • How others think • How change happens • The dynamics of power and influence • Global interdependence

  14. Implications for teaching & learning strategies? • How can we enable the graduate to manage the complexities, uncertainties and dynamic aspects of modern work? • Influence personal aptitudes e.g. persistence, flexibility, risk taking & curiosity. • Facilitate movement through different phases in career development.

  15. Discussion • What would you advise your children/students – follow your head or your heart? • What can you do through your teaching to help prepare graduates to make a good living?

  16. Strategies? • Projects that encourage multidisciplinary working such as ‘creative’ students working alongside ‘science & technology’ students. • Mini work based learning projects where graduates are ‘problem solving’ for ‘SME’s which can also grow new jobs. • Alumni mentoring students/graduates and providing models for managing uncertainty. • Unexpected changes WORKING TOGETHER

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