Embedding Career Education in the Geography Curriculum

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Embedding Career Education in the Geography
Curriculum

• Kate Colechin Glen Crust
• The University of Plymouth

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Content

• Career education in the geography curriculum
• Employability career management
• Embedding in the curriculum
• What happens
• Why it happens
• Who does it
• Innovation

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Career Education in the Geography Curriculum
University experience
Geography curriculum
Career education
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Night out with housemates on North Hilldiscuss
in pairs how you developed

• Team working
• Supportive, organised, co-ordinator, deliverer
• Interpersonal skills
• Listener, adviser, co-operative, assertive
• Oral communication
• Communicator, presenter, influencer
• Leadership
• Motivator, energetic, visionary
• Customer orientation
• Friendly, caring, diplomatic
• Foreign languages

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Canoe Club

• Sales public speaking at Freshers Fair
• Rapport building with strangers
• All sorts of people personalities
• From various nations walks of life
• Organising promotional materials
• Quality management
• Committee working
• Looking after yourself
• Getting out of the city, a break from the slog
• Resilience forces you to do things when youre
  tired

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The Geography Curriculum in Career Education
Career education
University experience
Geography curriculum
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Unexamined Employment
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Graduates employing their rapport -building,
planning negotiation skills
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Graduates employing their organisation, problem
solving drive for results
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Graduates employing their teamworking coaching
skills
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What we mean by employability

• The students motivation, skills experience
• To add value in
• Their choice of paid work
• Their broader roles, for example in their
• Family life
• Social life
• Community life

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The Big Picture

• Stage 1 PDP
• Stage 2
• PDP
• Work Based Learning module
• Geography Employability module
• Placement year
• Growing proportion year on year
• University-wide resources
• Final year
• Geography Careers module
• PDP

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UoP Geography National Landscape
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UoP Geography Institutional Landscape
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Career ManagementThe Icing on the Cake
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What we mean by career management
or SODiT model

• DOTS model
• Self-awareness
• E.g. MBTI, values, strengths, preferences
• Opportunity awareness
• E.g. graduate employment, SU clubs
• Decision making
• E.g. matching self with opportunity, planning
• Transition learning
• E.g. networking, written applications, interviews

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Great icing, terrible cake
Well-written job application
Little evidence of achievement during university
experience
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Great cake, terrible icing
Badly written job applications, inappropriate
vocational choice
Plenty of evidence of achievement throughout
university experience
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More Attractive to Employers?

• Graduates from your programme
• More capable
• More experienced
• Less appropriate vocational choices
• Look mediocre on paper
• Graduates from competitor HEIs
• Less capable
• Less experienced
• More appropriate vocational choices
• Look great on paper

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Recipe for Graduate Level Work

• Delicious cake
• The degree
• Fruits, nuts, spices
• SU clubs societies
• Work-based learning
• Part-time term time
• Vacation
• Voluntary
• Industry placement
• Icing candles
• Career management

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Baking the cake in the curriculum

• GGX3103 Geography Careers
• What happens
• Why it happens
• Who does it
• Innovation

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The Team
Brian
Students
Kate
Glen
Employers
Academic colleagues
Jane
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Employer involvement
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Employer Involvement

• Transition skill
• Enterprise Rent-a-Car assessment centres
• PricewaterhouseCoopers
• Travel gap years
• Sector briefings
• Town planning Plymouth City Council
• Local government West Somerset District Council
• SMEs, e.g. Kitley House Hotel
• Teaching school management
• Alternative lifestyles, e.g. Keveral Farm
• Volunteering international development, e.g.
  VSO, COPA
• Corporate management e.g . Parcel Force, Acheson
  Colloids

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Student Participation

• Module design what do you want?
• Student presentations
• e.g. travel international development
• Coursework
• Module evaluation
• Feedback from 11 interviews
• Last years graduates this years speakers

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Reflective Research-Led Teaching

• Students expectations graduate experience
• Career management self-audit
• Myers Briggs Type Indicator
• Peer-assessment

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Principle Entertaining

• Holding the students into the experience
• entre- "among" (from Latin inter)
• tenir "to hold" (from Latin tenere)

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Safe Entry to the Graduate Labour Market
Contingency Planning
Dream job Astronaut
Attractive Plan B Test pilot
How much you want it
Satisfactory Plan C Air cargo pilot
Safety net Careers adviser
How likely you are to get it
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Principle Challenging reality testing

• Illusions commend themselves to us because they
  save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure
  instead.
• We must therefore accept it without complaint
  when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality
  against which they are dashed to pieces.
• Sigmund Freud

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Career Management Self-Audit
Where am I now?
Where do I want to be?
Improving my plans
How do I get there?
Implementing my plans
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Myers Briggs Type Indicator

• Describes you in terms of four preferences
• Where you prefer to get and focus your energy and
  attention
• The kind of information you prefer to gather and
  trust
• The process you prefer to use in coming to
  decisions
• How you prefer to deal with the world around you
  your lifestyle

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Myers Briggs Type Indicator

• Describes you in terms of four preferences
• Where you prefer to get and focus your energy and
  attention
• The kind of information you prefer to gather and
  trust
• The process you prefer to use in coming to
  decisions
• How you prefer to deal with the world around you
  your lifestyle

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Which lifestyle do you prefer?
Judging
Perceiving
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Which lifestyle do you prefer?

• Judging
• You prefer to
• Get things decided
• Schedule organise
• You enjoy
• Decision making
• Planning
• You dislike
• Working under time pressure
• You trust experience

• Perceiving
• You prefer to
• Keep options open
• Be spontaneous adaptable
• You enjoy
• The process
• No decision before its time
• Youre energised by
• Last minute time pressure
• You trust inspiration

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How do you prefer to approach a coursework
deadline?
Judging
Perceiving
Deadline
Deadline
Start
Start
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Your Preferences
J
P
Separate students in the lecture theatre
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How About Working Together?
J preference deadlines
P preference alternatives
October 2007
Application deadline
June 2008
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Student Peers Assessment
Assessor bias peer assessed score self
assessed score
Peer score 16 Self score 12 Bias 6
Peer score 6 Self score 11 Bias -5
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Credit Bearing Assessment

• Recruitment selection simulation
• 6 job descriptions
• Application form
• Interview
• Academic assessment competition
• Academic assessment
• Choice of 2 essays
• One more reflective
• One more academic

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Experimentation Innovation
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Electronic reading list since 2003

• Shallow end entertain engage
• Deep end educate

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Economics

• Economics is the science which studies human
  behaviour as a relationship between ends and
  scarce means which have alternative uses
• Lionel Robbins
• British economist 1898 -1984

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Educational cakenomics

• Educational cakenomics is a science which studies
  human behaviour as a relationship between
  pedagogic ends and cakes which have alternative
  uses.
• after Lionel Robbins
• British economist 1898 -1984

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Applied Cakenomics

• Cake-powered continual improvement
• Reflection discussion
• How did that go? How can it be better?
• At the end of a lecture / workshop
• At the end of the year
• With the students
• Colleagues own their work thank you Brian
• Long-term planning cakey meetings scheduled
  across months
• Winning recipe
• Change of personnel thank you Mandy Burns
• Structural continuity
• Regular minor adjustments
• Organise our way out of hard work no time for
  that!

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A Balanced Team (in MBTI Terms)
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A Balanced Team Communication
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A Balanced Team Leadership
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A Balanced Team Managing Change
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A Relaxed Team
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Embedding Career Education in the Geography
Curriculum

• Any questions?