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Are Undergraduate Internships Worth the Effort? Time to Reconceptualize Work-Based Learning for Building Protean Meta-Competencies
| العنوان: | Are Undergraduate Internships Worth the Effort? Time to Reconceptualize Work-Based Learning for Building Protean Meta-Competencies |
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| اللغة: | English |
| المؤلفون: | Downs, Carolyn, Mughal, Farooq, Shah, Uzair, Ryder, Mike (ORCID |
| المصدر: | Studies in Higher Education. 2024 49(1):84-97. |
| الإتاحة: | Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 530 Walnut Street Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Tel: 215-625-8900; Fax: 215-207-0050; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journalsTest |
| تمت مراجعته من قبل الزملاء: | Y |
| Page Count: | 14 |
| تاريخ النشر: | 2024 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Journal Articles Reports - Research |
| Education Level: | Higher Education Postsecondary Education |
| الواصفات: | Undergraduate Students, Internship Programs, Work Experience Programs, Education Work Relationship, Employment Potential, Student Development, Soft Skills |
| DOI: | 10.1080/03075079.2023.2222147 |
| تدمد: | 0307-5079 1470-174X |
| مستخلص: | Internships are widely recognized within higher education as a useful work-based learning (WBL) approach to enhance student employability. However, there remains a need to understand whether internships provide a developmental experience that includes higher-level (soft) skills such as self-responsibility, flexibility and innovation. Our study inductively analyses 154 undergraduate student-interns' reflective diaries over a 3-year period to explore the relationship between internship experience and the development of higher-level skills, or protean "meta-competencies." In the research, we find the interns' developed three meta-competencies that can broadly be categorized as "self-regulation," "self-awareness" and "self-direction." Our findings also highlight the role of socio-political dynamics of internship work in shaping students' experiences as an indicator of the changing world of work. The study has implications for higher education institutions (HEIs) and host organisations in adopting a WBL approach that supports interns with reflexive engagement with situated organizational practices and accessing (in)formal learning opportunities in the workplace. Our research, therefore, offers insights into a learner-centred WBL approach that contributes towards a more holistic internship/WBL experience that facilitates student interns in developing protean meta-competencies and graduate employability. |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Entry Date: | 2023 |
| رقم الانضمام: | EJ1404124 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | ERIC |
| تدمد: | 0307-5079 1470-174X |
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| DOI: | 10.1080/03075079.2023.2222147 |