Work context is a key issue for learning leadership
This may seem like a logical no-brainer, but is it really? There are certain traditional leadership theories and models often used when teaching leadership. Similar leadership skills are needed, thus, it is clear that context matters when looking deeper into teaching leadership. A recent study at University West explored innovative pedagogical approaches in two programs, […]
Building bridges between theory and practice at the NEON conference, part II
This year’s NEON conference was situated in Tromsö, Norway. We, a group of researchers from University West, arranged a track, Learning in work life, featuring contributions from researchers across various universities and disciplines. (See also PART I of this blog post). In the following we will present an analysis of the conference contributions in relation […]
En AIL-doktorands reflektioner om skrivande
På senare tid har jag funderat en hel del på skrivande. Som doktorand i arbetsintegrerat lärande är skrivande en stor del av min vardag. Att vara doktorand innebär i mångt och mycket att producera olika sorters texter; att skriva och skriva om, att tänka och tänka om och att fundera över hur det skrivna mottages. […]
Reflections on a new bibliographic review of work-integrated learning research
There is a newly published bibliographic review of work-integrated learning research, presenting the research field and key players in WIL. Instead of reflecting ourselves on the findings in the article, we recommend you listen to this AI-generated conversation about it. What are your reflections when listening to the conversation? Maybe AI got it right and […]
Transforming Education – Transforming Lives: Reports from a special session on Current Issues in Work-Integrated Learning (CIWIL) in Europe
The international outreach of CIWIL (KAM AIL in English https://www.hv.se/en/research/research-environments/area-of-strength-work-integrated-learning/) was impressive at the ICERI 2024 conference. This world-wide conference attracted 780 attendees from 70 countries. CIWIL (KAM AIL) among others organized the special session Current Issues in Work-Integrated Learning (CIWIL) in Europe chaired by Ulrika Lundh Snis, Anna Karin Olsson and Kristina Areskoug Josefsson. […]
Building bridges between theory and practice at the NEON conference, Part 1.
The Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) community represents a growing field within social science, characterized by diverse and intersecting research interests. This year’s NEON conference (https://www.neondagene.no/), held in Tromsø, Norway, features a theme highly applicable to WIL: “Bridging Theory and Practice: Possible, Desirable, and Useful?” The primary objective of the NEON conference is to serve as a […]
Work-integrated learning and engaged scholarship: Bringing universities closer to the real world
Universities are critiqued for being irrelevant and not contributing to solving real-world problems. Work-integrated learning (WIL) and engaged scholarship are ways to bring universities closer to practice and communities. When reflecting on what it means to engage with society as an academic, there are several potential paths to consider. Through our research collaboration, we reflected […]
‘Anything Goes’ with Work-Integrated Learning?
‘Anything goes’, the central slogan of the Austrian philosopher Paul Feyerabend’s epistemological anarchism, is perhaps the most notorious phrase in 20th-century philosophy of science. Since it first appeared in 1970, it has provoked a largely critical response. Influential commentators have called Feyerabend’s view ‘inapplicable’ (Agassi[AHB(1] , 2014), ‘nonsensical’ (Nagel, 1977[AHB(2] ), ‘difficult to take seriously’ (Worrall, 1978[AHB(3] ), […]
Ten theses about WIL
After spending several years developing and running a master program in Work Integrated Political Studies (WIPS) which gives a master’s degree in work integrated learning, developing and running the course WIL as a research subject on the Ph. D. education in work integrated learning, being part of the WIL-certification process, currently doing research on the […]
Om undran inför AIL
Nyligen konfronterades jag med en enkät där jag ombads att utvärdera HV:s information om AIL ur olika aspekter. Var informationen tillräcklig? Var den lättbegriplig? Jag kom att känna en viss handfallenhet inför dessa frågor. Hur skulle jag kunna utvärdera information om någonting som jag efter att ha rannsakat mig själv, kom fram till att jag […]
