Academy for Scholarship in Education
Announces
"From School to Work:
Engaged Scholarship for Professional
Education Research"
Presented by:
Russell Korte, PhD
Assistant Professor, Human Resource Development
Fellow, Illinois Foundry for Innovation in Engineering Education
From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Thursday, June 20, 2013 12:00 - 1:00 pm
913 N Rutledge, room 1252
Springfield, IL
Presentation will be Videoconferenced to Lindegren 310
The long-running
debate about the purpose of higher education highlights the
tension between pushing the frontiers of knowledge and
preparing students for practice. This talk presents a research
agenda based on
engaged scholarship as a means to more closely link
education and practice and help professional students
transition from school to work more successfully.
This presentation reports the findings of a study of
newly hired engineering graduates—specifically looking at
their transition from school to work. It recounts their rich
and varied experiences as they learned the norms of
organizational life and questioned their views of what it
means to be an engineer. The findings challenge the limits of
current research on socialization and the on-boarding
practices of organizations. The findings also challenge the
limits of professional education in the academy.
