From expert student to novice professional: higher education and sense of self in the creative and performing arts

© 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The employability of graduates is of concern across further and higher education, but it is particularly problematic in the Creative and Performing Arts disciplines. Understanding the journey to work for arts graduates requires coll...

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Main Authors: Reid, A., Rowley, J., Bennett, Dawn
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD 2019
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/76512
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description © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The employability of graduates is of concern across further and higher education, but it is particularly problematic in the Creative and Performing Arts disciplines. Understanding the journey to work for arts graduates requires collaborative action from multiple agencies, particularly the collection and reporting of nuanced statistics on higher education graduate outcomes and empirical investigations of graduate work and employability. This paper reports on a study of Australian creative workers who described how their experiences of work inform their sense of ‘being’ and ‘becoming’. Two models are discussed in relation to the transition from student to professional worker. The first model explores how the self-determination of an individual’s motivation influences the success of the transition. The second model poses a multidisciplinary view of student engagement and provides a lens to the transformative processes for developing one’s sense of being through tacit knowledge and active engagement in professional self. The article exposes models of selfhood that might enhance our understanding of higher education students’ sense of becoming as well as how these models might be applied within the higher education context.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-765122021-01-21T01:04:25Z From expert student to novice professional: higher education and sense of self in the creative and performing arts Reid, A. Rowley, J. Bennett, Dawn Social Sciences Arts & Humanities Education & Educational Research Music Tertiary education employability scholarship of teaching and learning identity career arts music motivation transformation MOTIVATION IDENTITY © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The employability of graduates is of concern across further and higher education, but it is particularly problematic in the Creative and Performing Arts disciplines. Understanding the journey to work for arts graduates requires collaborative action from multiple agencies, particularly the collection and reporting of nuanced statistics on higher education graduate outcomes and empirical investigations of graduate work and employability. This paper reports on a study of Australian creative workers who described how their experiences of work inform their sense of ‘being’ and ‘becoming’. Two models are discussed in relation to the transition from student to professional worker. The first model explores how the self-determination of an individual’s motivation influences the success of the transition. The second model poses a multidisciplinary view of student engagement and provides a lens to the transformative processes for developing one’s sense of being through tacit knowledge and active engagement in professional self. The article exposes models of selfhood that might enhance our understanding of higher education students’ sense of becoming as well as how these models might be applied within the higher education context. 2019 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/76512 10.1080/14613808.2019.1632279 English ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD fulltext
spellingShingle Social Sciences
Arts & Humanities
Education & Educational Research
Music
Tertiary education
employability
scholarship of teaching and learning
identity
career
arts
music
motivation
transformation
MOTIVATION
IDENTITY
Reid, A.
Rowley, J.
Bennett, Dawn
From expert student to novice professional: higher education and sense of self in the creative and performing arts
title From expert student to novice professional: higher education and sense of self in the creative and performing arts
title_full From expert student to novice professional: higher education and sense of self in the creative and performing arts
title_fullStr From expert student to novice professional: higher education and sense of self in the creative and performing arts
title_full_unstemmed From expert student to novice professional: higher education and sense of self in the creative and performing arts
title_short From expert student to novice professional: higher education and sense of self in the creative and performing arts
title_sort from expert student to novice professional: higher education and sense of self in the creative and performing arts
topic Social Sciences
Arts & Humanities
Education & Educational Research
Music
Tertiary education
employability
scholarship of teaching and learning
identity
career
arts
music
motivation
transformation
MOTIVATION
IDENTITY
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/76512