Currently, there is a growing world-wide interest in work-integrated learning across higher education institutions. This is arising from the increased emphasis within higher education on courses that prepare people for specific vocational education outcomes, and even for graduates to be job-ready. This edited volume advances understanding and practice associated with how the integration of student experiences across the university and practice settings might best proceed in assisting realise educational purposes associated with preparing graduates who are adept, yet critical practitioners. It does this through drawing on the findings of a series of projects in Australia that investigated diverse aspects of work-integrated learning. Together, these projects provide a powerful platform to consider and appraise different aspects of this educational initiative within the same national higher education context. Through drawing on a series of investigations that address pedagogic and curriculum practices, institutional arrangements of different kinds and partnerships, a consolidated set of perspectives, instances and findings arise whose coherence resides in the organisation and enactment of work-integrated learning in the same higher education context.

In higher education institutions across the globe, there is a growing interest in integrating classroom learning with experience in practice settings. This interest is the result of an increased emphasis on courses that prepare students for specific occupations in the hopes that upon graduation students will be job-ready. Developing Learning Professionals: Integrating Experiences in University and Practice Settings explores how the integration of student experiences across university and practice settings might best be used to produce college graduates who are adept, critical practitioners. To do so, it draws on the findings of a series of projects in Australia that investigated diverse aspects of work-related learning. Through these projects, a range of scholars and researchers consider different aspects of this educational initiative within the same national higher education context. They address pedagogic and curriculum practices, institutional arrangements and partnerships of varying kinds, and a consolidated set of perspectives.