Peer journeys: building graduate capabilities for life long learning

Victoria Menzies; Pamela Weatherill; Karen J Nelson; Tracy A Creagh

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Peer journeys: building graduate capabilities for life long learning

Victoria Menzies, Pamela Weatherill, Karen J Nelson and Tracy A Creagh

International First Year in Higher Education (FYHE) Conference, 16th (Wellington, New Zealand, 07-Jul-2013–10-Jul-2013)

2013

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Curriculum and Pedagogy

Other Education

peer mentoring

leadership

lifelong learning

graduate capabilities

peer programs

Students experience university as peers. Peer-to-peer interaction offers unique opportunities for fostering the academic, social and emotional wellbeing of students (Kuh, 2008). Peer programs provide a formalisation of this relationship enabling students to partake both as peer leaders and program participants. The success of such programs is reliant on the university having a reserve of motivated and trained peer leaders. From their initial experience of peer programs as participants in first year and their ongoing involvement as peer leaders, students grow their graduate capabilities and employability skills through scaffolded peer leadership and training opportunities. Universities aspire to produce graduates who are inspirational leaders, effective collaborators and competent professionals ready to participate in the global community (DEEWR, 2012; Shook & Keup, 2012). This poster describes a model which scaffolds the development of peer leaders' graduate capabilities using a university-wide supporting framework to grow a range of peer-to-peer initiatives across a variety of coordinated peer programs underpinned by a social justice framework (Gidley, Hampson, Wheller & Bereded-Samuel, 2010; Nelson & Creagh, 2012).

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Title: Peer journeys: building graduate capabilities for life long learning
Authors: Victoria Menzies (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
Pamela Weatherill (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
Karen J Nelson (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
Tracy A Creagh (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
Conference details: International First Year in Higher Education (FYHE) Conference, 16th (Wellington, New Zealand, 07-Jul-2013–10-Jul-2013)
Date published: 2013
Organisation Unit: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Office of the Pro Vice-Chancellor (Students)
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99448825702621
Output Type: Conference poster

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