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Starting from the premise that learning and career development
happen naturally and optimally through collaboration and social
relationships, this book challenges the dominant employability
skills discourse by exploring socially connected and networked
perspectives to learning and teaching in higher education. With 10
empirical case studies of educational practice, chapters
investigate the development of learner capabilities, teaching
approaches, and institutional strategies to foster lifelong
graduate employability through social connectedness. The book
argues that higher education institutions have placed themselves at
a disadvantage in learning and teaching by limiting and prescribing
interactions that prevent multidisciplinary and cross-functional
collaboration, and embeddedness into wider industry and community
networks. The book offers new strategies and pedagogic approaches
that can support learners to build, maintain and make the most of
social connections for purposeful participation in life and work.
It also demonstrates how universities can forge effective
partnerships internally as well as with industry and community
partners to ensure the relevance and vibrancy of university
learning. Offering an alternative perspective on learning and
teaching in higher education with international relevance, this
book is a practical resource that can be used by educators to
inform teaching practice and curriculum development. It will be
essential for university leadership, as well as academics and
researchers focused on education policy and university management.
Policymakers globally are seeing the potential for future growth
through embedding greater creativity across their economies. Yet
much academic research has focused on the creative industries as
traditionally defined, rather than looking at the bigger picture.
CCI's research has been the exception, making significant
conceptual and empirical breakthroughs in our understanding of
creative work in the wider economy. This volume should be required
reading for students, researchers and practitioners of innovation
policy.' - Hasan Bakhshi, Director, Creative Economy in Policy
& Research, Nesta, UK'Hearn and his colleagues have amassed an
impressive array of empirical evidence, theoretical insights and
policy prescriptions for understanding how creative workers are
contributing to a variety of industries outside the purely cultural
or creative industry sectors. The scope of their investigations
includes healthcare, banking, manufacturing, digital technology,
creative services, journalism, media and communication, and higher
education. This book significantly advances our understanding of
how creative workers are utilizing their capabilities to contribute
broadly to the economy. It also offers important insights into
professional learning for creative workers and shows how education
can prepare future generations of creative study students to
succeed in today s knowledge based economy.' - Robert DeFillippi,
Suffolk University, US Creative workers are employed in sectors
outside the creative industries often in greater numbers than
within the creative field. This is the first book to explore the
phenomena of the embedded creative and creative services through a
range of sectors, disciplines, and perspectives. Despite the
emergence of the creative worker, there is very little known about
the work life of these 'creatives', and why companies seek to
employ them. This book asks: how does creative work actually
'embed' into a service or product supply chain? What are creative
services? Which industries are they working in? This collection
explores these questions in relation to innovation, employment and
education, using various methods and theoretical approaches, in
order to examine the value of the embedded creative and to discover
the implications of education and training for creative workers.
This book will be of interest to practitioners, policy makers and
industry leaders in the creative industries, in particular digital
media, application development, design, journalism, media and
communication. It will also appeal to academics and scholars of
innovation, cultural studies, business management and labour
studies. Contributors include: D. Bennett, R. Bridgstock, J.
Coffey, S. Cunningham, S. Fitzgerald, A. Freeman, B. Goldsmith, G.
Hearn, J. Pagan, P. Petocz, A. Podkalicka, J. Potts, A. Rainnie, J.
Rodgers, J.H.P. Rodrigues, T. Shehadeh, D. Swan, O. Zelenko
Examining pathways from creative education to work, and preparation
for these pathways within higher education programs, in the light
of long standing labour debates, this book explores the creative
launch experiences, destinations, and contributions of graduates
emerging into an enormously diverse and heterogeneous creative
workforce. Coming from university degree programs that tend to
focus on the development of specialist creative disciplinary
skills, graduates emerge into the diverse workforce with fairly
narrow career identities. With contributions ranging from
quantitative analyses of large longitudinal data sets to in-depth
qualitative cases, the book aims to provide a range of studies that
speak to the complexity found in creative careers. This book was
originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Education
and Work.
Examining pathways from creative education to work, and preparation
for these pathways within higher education programs, in the light
of long standing labour debates, this book explores the creative
launch experiences, destinations, and contributions of graduates
emerging into an enormously diverse and heterogeneous creative
workforce. Coming from university degree programs that tend to
focus on the development of specialist creative disciplinary
skills, graduates emerge into the diverse workforce with fairly
narrow career identities. With contributions ranging from
quantitative analyses of large longitudinal data sets to in-depth
qualitative cases, the book aims to provide a range of studies that
speak to the complexity found in creative careers. This book was
originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Education
and Work.
Despite the fact that many studies have demonstrated significant
social and economic benefits of the arts, creative and performing
artists continue to experience the highest levels of unemployment
and underemployment of any professional group. Artists' careers are
distinctive for more reasons than this. Artists tend to follow
boundaryless career patterns characterised by non-linear career
paths, and a patchwork of self employment, part-time, and casual
work alongside continual training and retraining. In addition,
artists often possess very strong internal career motivations and
criteria for success, known as a protean career orientation. This
book documents a program of research which draws upon what is known
about the skills and attitudes required for success in boundaryless
and protean careers to investigate predictors of success among
emerging and professional artists in Australia.
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