Using re-contextualisation to build links between humanities studies and students’ part-time work

Many university humanities students undertake part-time work in order to support themselves through their undergraduate studies. Griffith University’s workplace learning project sought to identify students’ conceptualisations of the relationships between their academic humanities studies and their part-time work experiences. This paper re-examines the data from that project in terms of the nexus between students’ experiences as humanities students and their experience as part-time workers using Van Oer’s framework for different concepts of contextualisation. This framework explains the notion ... Show more

Authors: Yashin-Shaw, Irena; Stevenson, John

Published: Brisbane, Queensland, Australian Academic Press, 2003

Resource type: Conference paper

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