Education for Employability (Volume 1)

Joy Higgs, AM, PhD, Emeritus Professor at Charles Sturt University, Adjunct Professor at the University of New South Wales and Director of the Education, Practice and Employability Network, Australia.

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsPart 1: Exploring Employability1 Employability Interests and Horizons: Public and Personal RealisationsJoy Higgs and James Cloutman2 Practice, Work and Employability: Evolutions and RevolutionsJoy HiggsPart 2: Setting the Employability Agenda3 Meeting Society’s Expectations of Graduates: Education for the Public GoodDawn Bennett4 Employability and Higher Education: Keeping Calm in the Face of Disruptive InnovationSally Kift5 Facing Global Challenges: One University Seizing Employability OpportunitiesWill Letts6 Re-imagining Graduate Achievement and EmployabilityGeoffrey Crisp and Beverley Oliver7 Creating Productive Spaces for Developing EmployabilityPeter Goodyear8 Graduate Employability 2.0: Learning for Life and Work in a Socially Networked WorldRuth Bridgstock9 Preparing Work Ready PlusGraduates for an Uncertain FutureGeoff Scott10 The Language of EmployabilityDoug Cole and Raphael Hallett11 Employability and Leadership in Contemporary Workplaces: Managerial CalculusNita L. Cherry12 Employability and First Nations’ Peoples: Aspirations, Agency and CommitmentsSandy O’SullivanPart 3: Education Strategies13 Holistic Curriculum Design for EmployabilitySally Kift14 Employability Pursuits beyond the Formal Curriculum: Extra and Co-curricular ActivitiesJudi Green, Angela Carbone and Gerry Rayner15 Work Integrated Learning: Professional Identity Development and Social ResponsibilityBarbara Walsh16 Practice-based Education: Education for Practice EmployabilityJoy HiggsPart 4: Reflections17 The Future is Ours: Students and Graduates Leading the FutureSophie Johnston18 Employability Pursuit: An AppreciationJoy Higgs19 What Does This All Mean for Higher Education?Geoffrey Crisp, Will Letts and Joy HiggsNotes on Contributors