1. THE AUSTRALIAN VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING MODEL AS AN INSPIRATION FOR CURRICULUM DESIGN IN TRANSLATOR EDUCATION Joanna Albin, PhD Pedagogical University of Cracow

2. Occupation is a factor of strong impact on an individual’s life, as well as on their affiliates and communities (Dewey 1916). All education must be vocational. (Billett 2011)

3. Vocational Education and Training - Australia Australian Skills Quality Authority National Centre for Vocational Education Research National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) VOCEDplus database Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) Training providers Research centres

6. Auckland Faculty of Education and Social Work The Griffith Institute for Educational Research (GIER) Faculty of Education and Social Work is committed to improving the well-being of individuals and communities, to the expansion of opportunities and to the achievement of potential. A particular feature of the faculty is its programme of education research that explores how educational interventions can improve teaching and learning, particularly for disadvantaged student groups. Projects Enhancing practice-based learning experiences: towards a curriculum, pedagogy and epistemology of practice Using professional standards: Assessing work integrated learning in initial teacher education Change, work and learning: Aligning continuing tertiary education and training

7. Griffith Institute for Educational Research Stephen Billett key interests: Workplace learning, authenticity of learning activities, social learning, mimesis as a learning procedure, self and agency, co-workers guidance, intersubjectivity, curriculum design, educational policies,post-school transition and continuing learning

8. MIMESIS “mimesis requires abilities to understand the context for the action, and individuals placing themselves in the position of observed actors, and to generate and reproduce those behaviors, actions, and practices with their own bodies” (Reber, 1992)

9. WAYS OF LEARNING

10. CURRICULA EDUCATIONAL APPROACHITS LIMITATIONS COGNITIVISMFOCUS ON INDIVIDUAL KNOWLEDGE PROCESSING BEHAVIOURISMFOCUS ON PERFORMANCE OUCOME TRANSFERABLE SKILLSLACK OF CONTEXT

11. CURRICULA …SHOULD INTEGRATE…. Situated practice enables cognitive adaptation of knowledge or generic skills to the current situation …BY THE MEANS OF… Diversity of experiences Sharing experiences

12. TRANSLATOR TRAINING Staff translator Integration in communities of practice Mimesis Freelance translator More self-directed Need of entrepreneurial strategies Anxiety: one’s work quality, one’s status, security of income.

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