Learning to Become a Professional Practitioner in Building Construction

Management and Property

Sidney NewtonThe University of New South Wales

Faculty of the Built Environment

Learning to Become a Professional Practitioner in Building Construction

Management and Property

… professional practice in the fields of construction management and property is quintessentially social in character…

Learning to Become a Professional Practitioner in Building Construction

Management and Property

… professional practice in the fields of construction management and property is quintessentially social in character…

[constituted by socio-cultural practices – shared routines, sensibilities, vocabularies, styles, artefacts, procedures – tacit knowledge within a ‘community of practice’]

Learning to Become a Professional Practitioner in Building Construction

Management and Property

… professional practice in the fields of construction management and property is quintessentially social in character…

[constituted by socio-cultural practices – shared routines, sensibilities, vocabularies, styles, artefacts, procedures – tacit knowledge within a ‘community of practice’]

… to become an effective professional practitioner requires a process of legitimate participation in practice by the learner…

Learning to Become a Professional Practitioner in Building Construction

Management and Property

… professional practice in the fields of construction management and property is quintessentially social in character…

[constituted by socio-cultural practices – shared routines, sensibilities, vocabularies, styles, artefacts, procedures – tacit knowledge within a ‘community of practice’]

… to become an effective professional practitioner requires a process of legitimate participation in practice by the learner…

[a learning process based on the personal observation of (and participation in) how practitioners actually ‘do’ their work – direct and situated]

Learning to Become a Professional Practitioner in Building Construction

Management and Property

… moves the focus of education away from the individual learner gaining a discrete body of abstracted knowledge, first acquired and only subsequently applied in practice…

Learning to Become a Professional Practitioner in Building Construction

Management and Property

… moves the focus of education away from the individual learner gaining a discrete body of abstracted knowledge, first acquired and only subsequently applied in practice…

[not an either/or – rather a switch in the privileging of theory over practice, and of representation over experimentation]

Learning to Become a Professional Practitioner in Building Construction

Management and Property

… moves the focus of education away from the individual learner gaining a discrete body of abstracted knowledge, first acquired and only subsequently applied in practice…

[not an either/or – rather a switch in the privileging of theory over practice, and of representation over experimentation]

… treats learning as a process of interpretation, in which understanding is related to action contexts, rather than to prescribed conceptual structures…

Learning to Become a Professional Practitioner in Building Construction

Management and Property

… moves the focus of education away from the individual learner gaining a discrete body of abstracted knowledge, first acquired and only subsequently applied in practice…

[not an either/or – rather a switch in the privileging of theory over practice, and of representation over experimentation]

… treats learning as a process of interpretation, in which understanding is related to action contexts, rather than to prescribed conceptual structures…

[such learning occurs outside of the classroom, within the professional work situation – in the context of messy, case-specific, applied ‘practice’]

Learning to Become a Professional Practitioner in Building Construction

Management and Property

how?

Learning to Become a Professional Practitioner in Building Construction

Management and Property

• case studies• problem-based learning• work experience

Learning to Become a Professional Practitioner in Building Construction

Management and Property

• case studies• problem-based learning• work experience

Learning to Become a Professional Practitioner in Building Construction

Management and Property

• systematic accounts• developing sensitivities• recognising choices• labeling and recalling• validating with others

Learning to Become a Professional Practitioner in Building Construction

Management and Property

“Workplace learning programs may be under increasing threat, exactly at the point when their full potential value and criticality is being realised.”

“Learning to become a professional practitioner requires an unprecedented partnership between academia, practice and the professional institutes.”

Learning to Become a Professional Practitioner in Building Construction

Management and Property

Sidney NewtonThe University of New South Wales

Faculty of the Built Environment