- Title
- Pedagogy not political pointscoring: How training providers teach international students
- Creator
- Smith, Erica
- Date
- 2010
- Type
- Text; Conference paper
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/62616
- Identifier
- vital:4324
- Identifier
- http://hdl.voced.edu.au/10707/52812
- Abstract
- 2009 was a bad year for Australia's international vocational education and training (VET) industry. Racism affecting international students on the streets and in the national media discouraged students from applying to study in Australia and made international education the centre of political controversy. In such an environment it has been easy to lose sight of the teaching and learning processes that are at the heart of VET for international students. This paper reports on part of a research project, funded by Service Skills Australia, that examined VET practitioners in the service industries. As part of that project the author carried out case studies in two registered training organisations (RTOs) that delivered training to substantial numbers of hospitality students and interviewed senior managers from four other RTOs. Staff and students alike reported on the benefits of having international students enrolled in their courses, and reported instances of good practice in pedagogy that have implications well beyond the international student cohort.
- Publisher
- Melbourne AVETRA
- Relation
- AVETRA 13th Annual Conference: VET Research: Leading and responding in turbulent times p. 1-12
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Crows Nest, NSW; Case study; Registered training organisation; Research project
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