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Signposts for staff development (2): workplace mentors
The study guide is designed as a resource to be used in the setting up and running of staff development for mentors. It provides a basis for analysing the function of work-based learning (WBL) within a programme of learning and hence the role of mentoring in supporting this learning and goes on to show the kinds of staff development possible and available through texts, training sessions and self-help groups and provides organisers of mentor training with information about both generic and subject specific materials and approaches. It is not a training manual. It provides an overview of training materials and approaches to assist in the design of programmes tailored to the needs of mentors in specific higher education (HE) contexts.
The available training materials for mentors and for organisers of mentoring schemes are plentiful and we have narrowed the field to staff development for people mentoring specific vocational diploma and degree students both in terms of general materials and materials and approaches relating specifically to the following four broad subject areas which have contrasting needs.
- technologies and applied science subjects
- helping and caring disciplines
- creative art and design disciplines
- business and management disciplines
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Briefing papers
This set of short briefing papers (prepared by members of the Project Team) are intended to complement our Guidelines for Good Practice in Supporting Students in the Workplace, which are the main outcome of a Department for Education and Employment funded project undertaken by the Open University's Quality Support Centre.
The briefing papers embed some of the issues raised in the Guidelines in the relevant literature and cover the following: learning styles and learner strategies; learning agreements; assessment strategies for work-based learning (WBL); learning outcomes and competence-based assessment; professional ethics as a dimension of the development of subject area knowledge and skills in the workplace; organisational forms of WBL
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Signposts for staff development (1): link tutors
Signposts for Staff Development (I): Link Tutors is intended to provide experienced curriculum and staff developers in higher education with a resource pack so that they can support academic staff concerned with managing placements and work-based learning to fulfil their role more effectively. In order to achieve this, it is necessary to provide staff developers with factual information and guidance, whilst, at the same time, posing questions and providing suggestions for activities which will generate a constructive response from link tutors and enhance their performance in this role. Consequently this booklet contains a set of photocopiable resources (The Link Tutor Task Checklist, Appendix I; Activity Resource Sheets, Appendix 2) and a substantial bibliography (Appendix 3) which might help to address some of the issues involved.
It is important not to lose sight of the fact that the principal aim must be to enhance the quality of student experience of work-based learning. Students on placements, working primarily outside their universities and colleges, do so because they need to add to their store of subject knowledge and specialist skills, as well as practise and enhance what they know and can already do. In addition, they must gain a whole range of transferable personal skills which are themselves highly valued by employers. There is no doubt that all the participants in placement activity recognise its exceptional value in enhancing interpersonal, technical and applicatory skills (Davies, 1990). The link tutor has a key role to play in all this, ensuring that the outcomes of work-based learning are of maximal benefit to the student and, where appropriate, to the profession for which they are being prepared.
Link tutors need to be:
- clear about the nature of the role in practical terms
- demonstrably competent in this role
- well motivated and convinced of the value of their work
- self critical and forward thinking, in the vein of Schon's reflective practitioner, always
- anticipating new developments and productive change (Schon, 1986) and
- open to new insights from a variety of sources.
It is hoped that this guide and its associated materials will make a contribution to the clarification and refinement of this critically important role
Challenges and Solutions for Depression Prevention Research: Methodology for a Depression Prevention Trial for Older Adults with Knee Arthritis and Emotional Distress
Moche: propuestas y perspectivas
Entre el 12 y 16 de abril de 1993 se realizó en la ciudad de Trujillo el Primer Coloquio sobre la Cultura Moche, organizado por la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y el Provecto Arqueológico Huaca de la Luna de la Universidad Nacional de Trujillo, y gracias al apoyo de el Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos (IFFA), la Fundación Ford, la Sociedad Cervecera de Trujillo y la Asociación Peruana de Fomento a las Ciencias Sociales (FOMCIENCIAS). Se reunieron veintiocho especialistas sobre la cultura Moche, con la finalidad de presentar y debatir las investigaciones realizadas durante las últimas dos décadas, así como hacer una evaluación de las investigaciones primigenias y proponer líneas de trabajo para el futuro. Este libro contiene los resultados de estas deliberaciones. Está organizado en cuatro partes con un total de 16 ponencias, además de un estudio introductorio y Otro de conclusiones y recomendaciones. La primera parte, titulada Nuevas Investigaciones, contiene ocho informes de campo que presentan datos nuevos producto de excavaciones realizadas durante los últimos seis años. Fa segunda parte, titulada Nuevas interpretaciones, incluye cuatro contribuciones (que tienen por común denominador el ofrecer principalmente revisiones críticas y de síntesis sobre la cultura Moche. La tercera parte. Ideología y poder, contiene tres artículos que tratan sobre la parte ideológica del mundo Moche. La cuarta incluye una ponencia sobre la importante tarea de conservación del patrimonio cultural, con especial énfasis en los murales polícromos de barro. Culmina el libro con una recopilación completa de la Bibliografía existente sobre la cultura Moche en sus diversos aspectos. Los trabajos que este libro contiene significan -sin duda alguna- un estado de la cuestión de nuestros conocimientos sobre la cultura Moche, y proporciona nuevos lineamentos que orientarán las investigaciones futuras. Por tanto, será un libro de interés tanto para los científicos como para el público en general. El libro consta de 550 páginas, con 228 ilustraciones en blanco y negro, 4 encartes, lo láminas con 40 lotos a color y 18 cuadros