Cooperative education in outdoor education

Clinical Coaching – An innovative role to improve marginal nursing students' clinical practice

“…Debriefing was used by the CC to generate discussion and analysis that creates insight and awareness of practice that as Hallett (1997) showed facilitates learning. Third years, in particular, need to have moved beyond the stages of 'noticing' or 'making sense' of clinical placement to a level where they are beginning to 'make meaning' of their experience (Martin and Fleming, 2010). Debriefing provided a way for the CC to encourage students to articulate clinical rationales for the nursing practice they implemented.…”

Improving the Student’s Cooperation and Environmental Care Skill using Outdoor Learning Strategy Outbound Variation

“…The choice of strategy in this study is based on reference [19] statement which suggests that outdoor learning can stimulate students to have independence, mutual cooperation and more importantly, is cooperation and train students to control emotions. Reference [31] also suggested that outdoor learning has a tendency to hone students' collaboration skills because they contain cooperative learning through various things that can be explored outside the classroom. The solution in the form of outdoor learning is supported by an outbound method that is able to improve student collaboration as the results of the reference [32] study which found that the outbound method was able to improve early childhood collaboration.…”

Dangerous liaisons

“…The increasing use over the last decade of employer engagement, work placements and reflective practices as part of outdoor degrees suggests that institutions are responding to stakeholder demands. For example, Martin and Flemming (2010: 41), in their study on experimental strategies for cooperative education in outdoor degree programmes, concluded that ‘work integrated learning experience provided exposure and transition to the real-world and offered ‘an opportunity to develop required graduate skills and to put theory into practice’. While employers may not necessarily be looking initially for ‘management material’, the awareness that a graduate has a deeper knowledge and understanding of the workplace, combined with extended professional and personal development, provides some confidence that he or she will be able to progress well in the organization (Futureskills Scotland, 2008).…”