Integrating work‐based and academic learning in international and cross‐cultural settings

Abstract

A recent study focused on workplace learning in the UK, USA and Canada; 14 universities, two community colleges and 15 host organisations were included. Interviews were conducted with directors of professional peak associations, academic supervisors, placement officers, managers and/or field supervisors and students. This paper reports on the ways in which higher education institutions organise and prepare students, academic staff and site supervisors to work in international and cross‐cultural work‐based programmes. It examines the level of integration that occurs between academic learning and the planning and execution of cross‐cultural and/or international work‐based placements.

Notes

1. The term ‘university’ is used irrespective of whether the course was in a university or a tertiary college.