Peer journeys: building graduate capabilities for life long learning
Poster
Paper/Presentation Title | Peer journeys: building graduate capabilities for life long learning |
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Presentation Type | Poster |
Authors | Menzies, Victoria (Author), Weatherill, Pamela (Author), Nelson, Karen (Author) and Creagh, Tracy (Author) |
Journal or Proceedings Title | Proceedings of the 16th International First Year Higher Education Conference (FYHE 2013) |
Number of Pages | 1 |
Year | 2013 |
Place of Publication | Brisbane, Australia |
ISBN | 9780646906157 |
Web Address (URL) of Paper | https://unistars.org/past_papers/papers13/fyhe13_proceedings.pdf |
Conference/Event | 16th International First Year in Higher Education Conference (FYHE 2013) |
Event Details | 16th International First Year in Higher Education Conference (FYHE 2013) Parent International First Year in Higher Education Conference Delivery In person Event Date 07 to end of 10 Jul 2013 Event Location Wellington, New Zealand |
Abstract | Students experience university as peers. Peer-to-peer interaction offers unique opportunities for fostering the academic, social and emotional wellbeing of students (Kuh, 2008). Peer programs provide a formalisation of this relationship enabling students to partake both as peer leaders and program participants. The success of such programs is reliant on the university having a reserve of motivated and trained peer leaders. From their initial experience of peer programs as participants in first year and their ongoing involvement as peer leaders, students grow their graduate capabilities and employability skills through scaffolded peer leadership and training opportunities. Universities aspire to produce graduates who are inspirational leaders, effective collaborators and competent professionals ready to participate in the global community (DEEWR, 2012; Shook & Keup, 2012). This poster describes a model which scaffolds the development of peer leaders' graduate capabilities using a university-wide supporting framework to grow a range of peer-to-peer initiatives across a variety of coordinated peer programs underpinned by a social justice framework (Gidley, Hampson, Wheller & Bereded-Samuel, 2010; Nelson & Creagh, 2012). |
Keywords | peer mentoring; leadership; lifelong learning; graduate capabilities; peer programs |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 390303. Higher education |
Public Notes | File reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher/author. |
Byline Affiliations | Queensland University of Technology |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q74q3/peer-journeys-building-graduate-capabilities-for-life-long-learning
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