Personal, Academic and Career Development in Higher Education by Arti Kumar

Personal, Academic and Career Development in Higher Education by Arti Kumar

This book is the first to show how to integrate Personal Development Planning (PDP) activities into teaching in higher education. It is packed with activities, exercises, lesson plans, resources, reflective questionnaires, skills audits and case studies, and with suggestions for how these may be customized to suit different groups of students in different subject areas. By embedding activities into the curriculum, students are encouraged to engage with the PDP process to help them: gain a better understanding of what and how they are learning improve study skills gain a clear idea strengths and areas for development improve ability to explain and discuss skills and abilities with prospective employers, with the evidence to support your claims become a more effective, independent and confident self-directed learner. Personal Development Planning will help all staff and educational development professionals, teachers in HE, and advisers and support staff in careers services enable students to build up a personal development record to improve their ability to relate their learning and achievements to employers' interests and needs and, ultimately, gain employment.

"..Arti Kumar’s book fills an important gap in the market. It will be of value to all careers service and academic staff who are involved in delivering programmes in higher education that are related to students’ career development and employability." -- Tony Watts, British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, Volume 36, No. 3, August 2008

Arti Kumar is Associate Director of the Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) at the University of Bedfordshire, UK, and is a National Teaching Fellow.

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ISBN 13	9780415423601
ISBN 10	0415423600
Title	Personal, Academic and Career Development in Higher Education
Author	Arti Kumar
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published	2008-01-31
Number of pages	328
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