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ERIC Number: EJ1477058
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025
Pages: 25
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EISSN: EISSN-2538-1032
Available Date: 0000-00-00
Exploring How Nutrition Students Used the Relational Employability Framework to Reflect on Their Micro-Placement Experiences
Elizabeth J. Cook; Ros Sambell
International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, v26 n2 p249-273 2025
As the world grapples with multiple challenges, workforces increasingly require university graduates who can navigate complexity to facilitate positive change. The relational employability framework (REF) is used by educators to help students develop an awareness of their human and more-than-human career interactions, contributions and possibilities, in addition to developing their foundational employability skills and attributes. This case study, situated in a third-year community nutrition unit at Edith Cowan University, explores how students applied the REF in their final written reflection assessment following a micro-placement. Eighteen students reflected on their micro-placement experience and developing relational employability using Gibbs' reflective cycle. Codebook thematic analysis followed by a matrix coding query revealed students mainly incorporated elements of the REF in the 'description' and 'feelings' components of Gibbs' reflective cycle, signifying a lack of deeper self-evaluation and action-oriented thinking. The REF did, however, help raise students' awareness of their situatedness and effects on others (human and more-than-human). The implications of these findings for universities are discussed.
New Zealand Association for Cooperative Education. University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105, Hamilton 3240, New Zealand. Tel: +64-7-838-4892; e-mail: editor@ijwil.org; Web site: https://www.ijwil.org/
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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