Aligning vocational education with the requirements of 21st-century work: Centrality of adaptability
Focusing on the importance of the quality of educative experiences and specifically strategies associated with generating learners’ adaptability, this presentation discusses the kinds of knowledge that needs to be learnt for contemporary work and means by which combinations of experiences in educational and workplace settings need to be augmented with strategies that intentionally develop adaptability in and through the learning of specific domains of occupational knowledge.
Dr Stephen Billett is Professor of Adult and Vocational Education in the School of Education and Professional Studies at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia and a National Teaching Fellow and Australian Research Council Future Fellow. After a career in garment manufacturing, he has worked as a vocational educator, educational administrator, teacher educator, professional development practitioner and policy developer in the Australian vocational education system and as a teacher and researcher at Griffith University. Since 1992, he has researched learning through and for work and has published widely in fields of learning of occupations, workplace learning, work and conceptual accounts of learning for vocational purposes. He is a Fulbright Scholar (1999), National Teaching Fellow (2008-2010), and Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (2011-15). In 2013, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Jyvasksla University (Finland), elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia in 2015 and appointed as an Honorary Research Fellow at Oxford University in 2019. He currently leads research projects in Australia, Singapore, Norway and the Middle East funded by national granting bodies, governments and global agencies.
26 nov. 2019