Lifetime award for Flinders educator

Professor Janice (Jan) Orrell, from Flinders School of Education, has been awarded one of three Australian Collaborative Education Network (ACEN) Lifetime Awards.

The awards, presented in Sydney at the 2016 ACEN Conference, recognise significant service and contribution to work integrated learning (WIL) in areas of practice, pedagogy or research.

Professor Orrell’s main contribution since the late 1980s has been in helping to make WIL “more visible and recognised as an important enterprise of higher education”.

She says WIL contributes to developing more fully rounded graduates with greater self-understanding as citizens and an awareness of their potential to contribute to society.

“I hope that I have underscored the potential value of WIL as ‘working to learn’ rather than merely learning to work, or a vehicle for employment,” she says.

The other ACEN Lifetime Awards were presented to Freny Tayebjee, University of Western Sydney, and Carol-Joy Patrick, from Griffith University.

Professor Orrell, is a coauthor of  Work Integrated Learning: A Guide to Effective Practice, published by Taylor and Francis, and the author of the Good Practice Guide: Work Integrated Learning, which is a review and critique of federally funded projects on WIL commissioned by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council for higher education.

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