Enhancing student employability through urban ecology fieldwork

IF 2.5 Q1 Social Sciences

Higher Education Pedagogies Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI:10.1080/23752696.2018.1462097

J. Peacock, K. Bacon

引用次数: 12

Abstract

Abstract Students undertook a one-hour urban ecology activity based on the University of Leeds campus. The aims of the session were (1) to help students to link ecological theory to practice and (2) to encourage students to begin to think about and develop an online professional identity. Students were encouraged to tweet throughout the session and were surveyed four weeks after the session to determine if the aims had been met. A majority of students enjoyed the session and saw the links between the theory and practice of ecology. Most students also identified that an online professional identity is important and something that they should be developing. The session highlights that employability and professional development skills can be introduced to students within a subject-specific context early in their degree programme and still highlight the importance of generic transferable skills related to employability.

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通过城市生态学实地考察提高学生的就业能力

学生们以利兹大学校园为背景进行了一场一小时的城市生态活动。该课程的目的是(1)帮助学生将生态理论与实践联系起来，(2)鼓励学生开始思考和发展在线职业身份。学生们被鼓励在整个课程中发推特，并在课程结束四周后接受调查，以确定目标是否已经实现。大多数学生都很喜欢这个课程，并且看到了生态学理论与实践之间的联系。大多数学生还认为，网络职业身份很重要，是他们应该发展的。该会议强调，就业能力和专业发展技能可以在学位课程的早期在特定学科的背景下介绍给学生，同时仍然强调与就业能力相关的通用可转移技能的重要性。

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Higher Education Pedagogies EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-

CiteScore

7.70

自引率

4.00%

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审稿时长

13 weeks

期刊介绍： The aim of Higher Education Pedagogies is to identify, promote and publish excellence and innovations in the practice and theory of teaching and learning in and across all disciplines in higher education. The journal will provide an international forum for the sharing, dissemination and discussion of research, experience and perspectives across a wide range of teaching and learning issues. The journal will prove a valuable resource for individuals in the development and enhancement of their own practice, and for institutions in the promotion of the scholarship of teaching and learning. Higher Education Pedagogies will focus on disciplinary pedagogies and learning experiences; the higher education curriculum, i.e. what is taught and how it is developed and enhanced including both skills and knowledge; the delivery of the higher education curriculum; how it is taught and how students learn, and academic development; the role of teaching and learning in the development of academic careers and its place within the profession. Higher Education Pedagogies welcomes papers which are accessible to both specialist and generalist readers and are theoretically and empirically rigorous. Through advancing knowledge of, and practice in, teaching and learning, Higher Education Pedagogies will prove essential reading for all those who wish to stay informed of state-of-the-art teaching and learning developments in higher education. Higher Education Pedagogies is sponsored by the Higher Education Academy.