Professional experience, practice-led teaching, and employability for IT degree programmes
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July 25, 2023
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The purpose of this doctoral study is to explore how IT practice-led teachers inform their professional experience on the educational experience of IT degree students, and the relationship which emerged from this investigation on graduates’ employability. Mixed methods approach is adopted in this study, including semi-structured interviews with practice-led teachers, student surveys (course-level and programme-level) and class observations for disciplinary inquiry, whereas integrated research is used for exploring the topic of project management. Key emerging themes include practice-led teaching profiling and capital distinctions; co-curricular course design, experiential learning and networking; the organising principle between first principle’s teaching approach and vocational training approach, positioning of educational authenticity and authentic work practices in acquiring applied and practical practices, classroom community of disciplinary inquiry on intellectual project works, and the integrated view on project management among different research instruments.
This study is specific to the context of IT degree programmes, and the research implications may be relevant to other contexts whose programme orientations are applied and practical in nature when the concept of knowledge structures for expertise development is considered. The educational value can be drawn to the possible concepts of educational authenticity and resemblances on the acquisition of professional practices in university environment.
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EdD
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School of Education (UK)
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69484
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