Work-integrated… what?

Providing students with work-based experiences is a popular educational approach. What I find problematic is the general trend to label this approach Work integrated Learning (WIL) rather than Work-integrated Education (WIE) (Billett & Valencia-Forrester, 2020). The International Journal of Work-integrated Learning reproduces this trend by defining WIL as: an educational approach that uses relevant work-based […]

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おはようGood morning!

It is 3 am and I am sitting in my living room, listening to the session “Experiences from CEWIL Canada, WIL and ACEN” at the WACE (World Association of Co-operative Education) conference. The three acronyms hold three giant networks focusing on work integrated learning around the globe. The conference should have been held in Kanazawa, […]

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Seendets konst

Den amerikanska genforskaren Barbara McClintock (1902-1992) tilldelades 1983 ett nobelpris sin forskning kring det avvikande majskornet. En tid innan hon belönades med priset utkom en bok om henne: A Feeling for the organism. The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock, författad av den amerikanska professorn Evelyn Fox Keller. Boken bygger på samtal med McClintock och […]

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A new “grammar” can help us define the future of WIL

After almost 20 years experience of the concept of work integrated learning (WIL), and participation in various conversations and discussions about what WIL is, I am increasingly convinced that it is more relevant to ask the question what WIL can become in the future? WIL can be described as a new discipline within the social […]

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WIL Reflections…it’s alive! 

Welcome to University West’s research blog about Work integrated Learning (WIL). Through the blog, we want to actively stimulate a theoretically grounded and critical discussion about how WIL can be understood as a multifaceted phenomenon, concept, or research area. We envision that such a discussion will illustrate and develop the core and the elasticity of […]

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