Linking Cooperative Education and Education for Sustainability: A New Direction for Cooperative Education?

Title
Linking Cooperative Education and Education for Sustainability: A New Direction for Cooperative Education?
Publication Date
2003
Author(s)
Taylor, Subhashni
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1624-0901
Email: btaylo26@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:btaylo26
Taylor, Neil
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8438-319X
Email: ntaylor6@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:ntaylor6
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
New Zealand Association for Cooperative Education (NZACE)
Place of publication
New Zealand
UNE publication id
une:3710
Abstract
In this article the authors propose that co-op practitioners and researchers need to constantly re-examine the practice and future of cooperative education. Co-op currently introduces large numbers of graduates into the business and manufacturing employment sectors. A number of authors have argued that co-op graduates rapidly advance in companies and assume middle and senior management roles. These co-op graduates and their non-co-op counterparts become the business and commercial leaders of the future. Here we argue that one beneficial future direction for co-op could be in the area of graduate understanding about education for sustainability (EfS). This paper begins with a description of the principles that underpin concepts for both EfS and cooperative education and examines three propositions as to how cooperative education might act as a vehicle for delivering aspects of EfS.
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Citation
Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education, 4(1), p. 1-8
ISSN
1175-2882
Start page
1
End page
8

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