Aim
This workshop is designed for academic staff at the University of Westminster working in practice-based fields, drawing on the CEPLW-funded project 'Writing as Professional Practice'. The workshop will explore the relationship between writing, professional learning and practice. It will provide participants with the opportunity to examine the part that writing plays in day-to-day professional practice in their own field. Participants will consider the implications of our approach for the development and delivery of professional-based learning.
Content
Our project is a collaboration between CEPLW at Westminster and the 'Practice-Based Professional Learning' Centre for Excellence at the Open University. We have been examining the relationship between writing and professional practice. We have interviewed a specific group of professional practitioners - university lecturers - about the range of writing that they accomplish in their everyday work. Our interviews have focused around specific examples - chosen by interviewees - of their own everyday workplace writing.
In the workshop we will introduce some preliminary findings from our project and examine the range of writing associated with everyday professional practice. Much of this workplace writing remains hidden and may be considered insignificant or unimportant in relation to more prestigious writing tasks. The workshop will bring the function and significance of this writing to the fore, illustrating the important part it plays in getting things done in the workplace. This focus on everyday professional writing provides a new and valuable tool for understanding the nature of practice-based knowledge and professional learning. We will explore the implications of our findings by inviting participants to explore their own experience of workplace professional writing. You will also have the opportunity to consider how you can build explicit attention to, and support for, students' everyday work-related writing into practice-based courses.
Workshop facilitators:
Dr Barry Stierer Dr Mary R. Lea
Educational Initiative Centre Institute of Educational Technology
University of Westminster The Open University
Date and time
Tuesday 21 April 11:00-13:00
(Refreshments provided)
Venue:
CEPLW Training Room (M513) at Marylebone
RSVP:
To confirm a place please email Ushala at balkisu@westminster.ac.uk.
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Professional Doctorate Seminar
Professional Doctorate Seminar
Aim and Background
For people who would like to understand more about growing trends, and advantages, of generic professional doctorate programmes. The generic Work Based Learning (WBL) Masters/Doctorate in Professional Studies at Middlesex University was validated in 1996. Since that time three further Specialist Validated Pathways (SVPs) within the University in Health, Environment and Risk have been developed; five collaborative SVPs with organisations such as Ashridge Management College and Metanoia Psychotherapy Institute have developed; and there have been over 100 graduates.
On the generic programme at the Institute for Work Based Learning there are currently approximately 200 candidates spread across the world, with significant numbers attached to our overseas centres in Greece, Cyprus, Ireland and Hong Kong. As the numbers increase it is clear that the transdisciplinary, individually negotiated focus of the programme is popular.
Guest Speaker:
Middlesex University
Dr Pauline Armsby
Institute for Work Based Learning
Pauline leads the Masters/Doctorate in Professional Studies (M/DProf) programmes at Middlesex University. Main research interests: Pauline’s research interests include examining methodologies and epistemologies in work based learning and how they are additional to and support subject based approaches to knowledge. She has research interest in professional doctorates; including parity and difference with PhD study, quality assurance issues and the use of accreditation of prior and experiential learning (APEL).
Further information about Pauline can
be accessed at: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/wbl/staff/parmsby.asp
Who Should attend?
Anyone interested or involved in the development of flexible programmes, online learning and learning through work.
Further Details
Date and Time:
Wednesday 14 January 2pm-4pm
(Refreshments provided)
Venue:
CEPLW Training Room (M513) at Marylebone
RSVP:
To confirm a place please email
balkisu@westminster.ac.uk.
Read more!
Aim and Background
For people who would like to understand more about growing trends, and advantages, of generic professional doctorate programmes. The generic Work Based Learning (WBL) Masters/Doctorate in Professional Studies at Middlesex University was validated in 1996. Since that time three further Specialist Validated Pathways (SVPs) within the University in Health, Environment and Risk have been developed; five collaborative SVPs with organisations such as Ashridge Management College and Metanoia Psychotherapy Institute have developed; and there have been over 100 graduates.
On the generic programme at the Institute for Work Based Learning there are currently approximately 200 candidates spread across the world, with significant numbers attached to our overseas centres in Greece, Cyprus, Ireland and Hong Kong. As the numbers increase it is clear that the transdisciplinary, individually negotiated focus of the programme is popular.
Guest Speaker:
Middlesex University
Dr Pauline Armsby
Institute for Work Based Learning
Pauline leads the Masters/Doctorate in Professional Studies (M/DProf) programmes at Middlesex University. Main research interests: Pauline’s research interests include examining methodologies and epistemologies in work based learning and how they are additional to and support subject based approaches to knowledge. She has research interest in professional doctorates; including parity and difference with PhD study, quality assurance issues and the use of accreditation of prior and experiential learning (APEL).
Further information about Pauline can
be accessed at: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/wbl/staff/parmsby.asp
Who Should attend?
Anyone interested or involved in the development of flexible programmes, online learning and learning through work.
Further Details
Date and Time:
Wednesday 14 January 2pm-4pm
(Refreshments provided)
Venue:
CEPLW Training Room (M513) at Marylebone
RSVP:
To confirm a place please email
balkisu@westminster.ac.uk.
Read more!