SEDA Special 29 - Learner Engagement: A Guide to Negotiated Work-Based Learning
Recently, government directives have highlighted once again graduate employability as a key priority for business and emphasised the importance
of opportunities for students to enhance their work-related skills. Work-based learning has been developing in UK higher education since the early 1990s. Many university programmes already use workplace problems as a learning resource, involving students in
typical work-based practices such as action learning projects and individually negotiated learning agreements or contracts. Additionally, the blurring of the boundaries between learning gained in the HEIs and elsewhere has gained a foothold over the years in
the practice of assessing prior experiential learning and in accrediting in-company training schemes.
This SEDA Special examines a range of issues surrounding work-based learning. In particular, it looks at contemporary notions such as ‘employer engagement’ and ‘employer
responsive provision’ and re-evaluates them in the light of a pedagogically-based perspective which is driven by learner-managed learning, with the outcomes of that learning negotiated between the learner, the employer and the academy. The Special also re-examines
the on-going debate about the nature and creation of ‘legitimate knowledge’ and provides an overview of some practical aspects of the delivery of negotiated work-based learning and its assessment.
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