ERIC Number: EJ1455616
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 15
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Capability Reconceptualized: Towards a Landscape of Practice Approach in Graduate Employability
Behnam Soltani; Karsten E. Zegwaard
International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, v25 n4 p603-617 2024
To understand graduate employability, this paper uses a landscape of practice (LofP) lens, and methods including narrative frames, observations, and interviews to interpret capability development and identity construction of learners in a work-based learning masters program. It argues that learners enhance employability, capabilities, and knowledge through mutual engagement in practices of their communities of practice (CofP). Furthermore, it showcases that this process is enacted through learners' membership and negotiating boundaries of their community as they move from one community to another within their LofP. It then re-examines the definition of capability and argues that capability should be understood as a social construct through which individuals participate in the practices of their CofP and express knowledgeability of community norms and practices. It concludes that individuals build capabilities through a process involving problem solving, negotiation and learning, resilience, and reflection on their own and other members' actions as they engage in interactions.
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Communities of Practice, Masters Programs, Ability, Experiential Learning, Graduate Students, Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education, Student Responsibility, Foreign Nationals, Indigenous Populations, Student Attitudes, Self Concept, Interpersonal Relationship, Group Membership, Barriers, Personal Space, Work Environment, Problem Solving, Resilience (Psychology), Learning Strategies
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Tests/Questionnaires; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: New Zealand
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