Teaching Matters Student Employment

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Image credit: Clark Tibbs, unsplash, CC0 Dr Sharon Maguire, a Careers & Employability Manager at The University of Edinburgh , proposes the “creative, iterative, human-centered, problem-solving methodology” of Life Design as an answer to urgent questions of student employability, curriculum transformation, and the future of work.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 10, 2022

Drawing on Wenger’s work on Communities of Practice (1998), but also the later work on Landscapes of Practice (Wenger-Trayner, Fenton-O’Creevey, Hutchinson, Kubiak & Wenger-Trayner, 2014), offers a useful lens for us to think about our students’ situated learning experience. 2014) Learning in landscapes of practice.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MARCH 5, 2019

In the Business School, we recognised that we weren’t always making it easy for students to decipher where and how they were developing these skills, both in and beyond their taught curricula. She holds a CIPD qualification, is an accredited Coach through the Association for Coaching, and a trustee of a local Edinburgh charity.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Disciplinary and contextual differences must be recognised and cherished, and this will continue to be essential as we realise our vision of the Edinburgh Student. This aligned with our work harnessing co- and extra-curricular learning to support students’ development and impact.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The Case Studies in Sustainable Development course in the School of Geosciences already included students doing project work in groups, but the students just researched a self-chosen case study of sustainability in the usual academic manner; they were not directed towards any practical outcome.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

We introduced the UCVME in 2014 as we wanted to formally recognise the important role our students play in our teaching and learning processes. We have had over 140 students enrol on the programme and, so far, 22 have completed the programme in 2017, and 35 in 2018.

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