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Careers and employability learning

Pedagogical Principles for Higher Education

Bibliographic Data

ID4096732
AuthorsMichael Healy (0000-0002-9572-2182, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume48
Issue8
Pages1303-1314
Publication date2023-08-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueStudies in Higher Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0307-5079 • E-ISSN: 1470-174X
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03075079.2023.2196997
OpenAlexW4362582327
LanguageEN
Citations received17
References cited35

Increasingly, universities prioritise employability as a primary purpose of personal and public investment into higher education and target graduate employability in their teaching, learning, assessment, and student support strategies. However, despite its emergence as a central concern in higher education, graduate employability lacks coherent and robust theoretical or pedagogical foundations. In particular, limited conceptualisations of career development learning applied in most graduate employability scholarship do not include key theories from the field of career development. Rather than continuing to approach graduate employability and career development as different things, the higher education community should recognise their congruence and compatibility and instead adopt a more integrated and critical understanding of careers and employability learning. This article offers a curricular vision of an integrative pedagogy of careers and employability learning, based on six pedagogical principles that can inform efforts to deliver high quality, equitable, and empowering careers and employability learning for students

Career development · Employability · Higher education · Pedagogy · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Engineering Education and Curriculum Development · Higher Education and Employability · Higher Education Learning Practices · Psychology

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Unique citing works17
Citations per year8,5
Citation span2024 - 2026 (3)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 17

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