Abstract
Assessing Existing Experiential Learning Practice in Australian and New Zealand Planning Programs; a Partnership Between Universities and the Profession
2012 Learning & Teaching Week Program, p.12
Learning & Teaching Week, 2012 (Sunshine Coast, Australia, 20-Aug-2012–24-Aug-2012)
2012
Abstract
The University of the Sunshine Coast in partnership with La Trobe, Edith Cowan and Griffith Universities, the University of Tasmania and the Planning Institute of Australia (PIA) is undertaking a research project on the use of experiential learning in planning education. The project evolved during the development of the four year planning program at USC and a preliminary project was funded by an internal learning and teaching grant in 2009. The current project is being funded by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council Ltd, an initiative of the Australian Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education (DIISTRE).The two year project responds to three identified needs: to increase planner professionalism through matching skill gaps with training; to bring planning educators and practitioners closer together; and to increase collaboration between planning schools and the professional accrediting bodies-PIA and NZPI. The paper aims to present the principles which have been developed to guide the improvement of experiential learning experiences used in planning education. The paper also reports on the preliminary findings from the initial stage of the project in which the researchers, using a survey, collected baseline data about existing experiential learning practices in tertiary planning schools across Australia and New Zealand.
Details
- Title
- Assessing Existing Experiential Learning Practice in Australian and New Zealand Planning Programs; a Partnership Between Universities and the Profession
- Authors
- Christine Slade (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts and BusinessJo Rosier (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts and BusinessClaudia Baldwin (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts and Business
- Publication details
- 2012 Learning & Teaching Week Program, p.12
- Conference details
- Learning & Teaching Week, 2012 (Sunshine Coast, Australia, 20-Aug-2012–24-Aug-2012)
- Publisher
- University of the Sunshine Coast
- Date published
- 2012
- Organisation Unit
- School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Engage Research Lab; School of Law and Society; Sustainability Research Cluster
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99448764002621
- Output Type
- Abstract
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