Pre-professional fieldwork helps graduates pursue specialized library careers, addressing the well-documented experience barrier that many lack. Because COVID-19 required remote learning, virtual practicums may continue, offering LIS chance to learn from experts and develop skills beyond traditional curriculum. Virtual practicum benefits have been addressed in previous literature, but student p...

Pre-service English language instruction is fraught with tensions between academic goals at the university and those school. These conflicts were exacerbated by COVID-19 contingency. This critical qualitative narrative study aimed to understand three aspiring teachers’ perspectives they designed pedagogical innovations during their teaching practicum in context of remote education. Data gathere...

In this paper, the authors revisit the pre-service teacher practicum experience and propose that mobile technology, with its ability to provide instant communication and immediate access to resources, could minimise the “disconnect” between theory and the school classroom and improve the experience for all parties involved. However, before this project began, the wide-ranging ethical considerat...

As bloggers and mobile phone eye-witnesses increasingly supplement the ‘news,’ it is more important than ever to understand how professional journalists develop their expertise. In this paper, we examine an intermediate level reporting practicum course to explore the learning processes therein. Using a new method called Epistemic Network Analysis, we also explore emergent relationships within d...

Counsellors and practicum supervisors reflected on their professional education preparation, and sometimes lack of preparation, for engagement in multicultural counselling and social justice activities. They highlighted the need for increased emphasis on applied experiences, both within and outside the classroom; the trans‐ lation of theory into practice; a broader, systemic conceptualisation o...

Argyris and Schön distinguish espoused theories those which people speak about – from theory-in-use those which can be inferred from action. In small software teams, developing reflective thinking about action is a vital necessity in coping with change. We address these issues in a Masters of Software Engineering, performed with an alternation between university and industry. University periods...

East Carolina University College of Allied Health Science's Department of Health Services Management program is partnering with Community Care of North Carolina and Access East to transform medical practices and educate students on the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model of health care delivery. Why now? The Affordable Care Act (2010) and other health care reform changes brought to the f...