Developing employability and professional identity through visual narratives

Enhancing employability for higher education arts graduates requires collaborative action on three fronts: specificity in the measurement and reporting of graduate outcomes; advocacy to re-align stakeholder conceptions of graduate work and employability; and learner engagement in career-related thin...

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Main Author: Bennett, Dawn
Format: Journal Article
Published: Art Education Australia 2016
Online Access:http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=317336577724001;res=IELHSS
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/26574
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description Enhancing employability for higher education arts graduates requires collaborative action on three fronts: specificity in the measurement and reporting of graduate outcomes; advocacy to re-align stakeholder conceptions of graduate work and employability; and learner engagement in career-related thinking and action. This paper reports a career-related engagement in which students and educators created visual narratives with text-based captions in answer to the question, “What is a musician?” Similarities and differences in student-educator thinking highlight the potential for students to generate broad career previews through in-class engagement. Visual methodologies emerge as a powerful strategy for the promotion of career-oriented thinking and reflection.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-265742019-03-06T08:18:38Z Developing employability and professional identity through visual narratives Bennett, Dawn Enhancing employability for higher education arts graduates requires collaborative action on three fronts: specificity in the measurement and reporting of graduate outcomes; advocacy to re-align stakeholder conceptions of graduate work and employability; and learner engagement in career-related thinking and action. This paper reports a career-related engagement in which students and educators created visual narratives with text-based captions in answer to the question, “What is a musician?” Similarities and differences in student-educator thinking highlight the potential for students to generate broad career previews through in-class engagement. Visual methodologies emerge as a powerful strategy for the promotion of career-oriented thinking and reflection. 2016 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/26574 http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=317336577724001;res=IELHSS Art Education Australia restricted
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Developing employability and professional identity through visual narratives
title Developing employability and professional identity through visual narratives
title_full Developing employability and professional identity through visual narratives
title_fullStr Developing employability and professional identity through visual narratives
title_full_unstemmed Developing employability and professional identity through visual narratives
title_short Developing employability and professional identity through visual narratives
title_sort developing employability and professional identity through visual narratives
url http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=317336577724001;res=IELHSS
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/26574