Abstract
Higher Education Institutions are under increasing pressure to produce competent and qualified graduates for the ever-changing labour market. However, this is no easy feat. This paper shows how a transformational change in Victoria University’s teaching model created an opportunity for teachers to redesign first-year, employability-related curricula. The approach to this challenge focuses on the development of a career mindset in first year university students. Through the examination of two courses, one from the Bachelor of Arts and one from the Bachelor of Psychological Studies, this paper demonstrates a number of active learning and engagement strategies that can be incorporated into the classroom to empower first year students to develop a career mindset that can help them to develop and integrate employability related skills throughout their degrees and beyond.
Highlights
Stakeholders have long acknowledged that higher education institutions (HEIs) have an important responsibility to prepare tertiary students for the evolving workforce (Buchanan et al, 2009)
Through the examination of two courses, one from the Bachelor of Arts and one from the Bachelor of Psychological Studies, this paper demonstrates a number of active learning and engagement strategies that can be incorporated into the classroom to empower first year students to develop a career mindset that can help them to develop and integrate employability related skills throughout their degrees and beyond
This paper describes an innovative approach to first-year employability teaching, one that focuses on building in students a strong career mindset
Summary
Stakeholders have long acknowledged that higher education institutions (HEIs) have an important responsibility to prepare tertiary students for the evolving workforce (Buchanan et al, 2009). Universities recognize that individuals’ development of employability skills is not confined to the period spent in higher education, but rather is a ‘whole-of-life’ endevaour (Solomonides, 2012). The scope of this task presents employability-related curriculum designers in HEIs with a challenge: how to conceptualise and pursue the goals of employability teaching within what is often an already-crowded curriculum. The paper elaborates the approach to first-year employability teaching noted above It defines the concept of ‘career mindset’ and demonstrates how this concept has shaped the design of two courses, each of which supports students as they build career mindsets relevant to their respective degrees
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