Assignment #1 (2500 words) Type: Essay: The purpose of lifelong learning Learning Objectives Assessed: 1, 2, 3, 5 Due Date: 2 Sep

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The concept of lifelong learning has always been central to adult and vocational education. Technical and Further Education (TAFE) was developed in the 1970's as a provision of education not only for the initial preparation of skills for the Australian workforce, but for learning throughout life. Similarly, lifelong learning has long been associated with individuals' personal development or continuing education to advance or change careers. That is, it had a strong focus on personal and personally-directed development. However, in recent years, the concept of lifelong learning has come to be viewed as a form of education to maintain individual's currency of their vocational practice throughout their work lives, in order to achieve important economic goals of sustaining national competitiveness and standards of living. For some commentators this view represents a narrowing of the purposes and valuing of lifelong learning. For others, this represents a focus on individuals' vocation and its ongoing development throughout their working life. The Task Drawing on examples from your professional experience, argue a case for what you believe should be the purposes of lifelong learning and its relationship to vocational education. Your response needs to include:
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a critical account of conceptions of lifelong learning; a discussion of vocations and their relationship to working lives; a critical consideration of vocation as the basis of vocational education a critical evaluation of the educational worth of the current conception of lifelong learning and the purposes of vocational education.

Criteria & Marking: The assignment will be assessed against the following criteriay y y

The comprehensiveness of the accounts of lifelong learning and strength of your analysis of its purposes and conceptions. The breadth of considerations of vocations and working life and strength of analysis of relationship between vocations and working lives. The strength of case about the worth of lifelong learning and the comprehensiveness of support for your position.

The quality of the written work, that is, the structure and presentation of the paper, the clarity of expression and the use of supportive research and literature

A full criteria sheet outlining the standards and weightings of the criteria will be published in the course site on learning@griffith. Please use it to guide your preparations and writing of the assignment.

Submission: Assignment submission All assignments are submitted electronically by the due date. Upload your assignment as a word document through the submission point located on the assessment page of the course web site in learning@griffith. This is a simple process and details on how to do this are posted on the announcements page of the course site in learning@griffith. All assignments should be word-processed using Times New Roman or Arial/Helvetica 12 pt font, double line spacing and 2.54 margins all round. It is useful to number the pages and put your name, course code and assignment number in the header or footer. Please ensure that you back up all files and that you keep a copy of each assignment.

Assignment #2 (3000 words) Type: Essay: Older workers and lifelong learning Learning Objectives Assessed: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Due Date: 28 Oct 11 Weight: 50% Task Description: Task Considering the demands and contemporary requirements of your vocational or professional practice, critically examine how these requirements are likely to change in the future, with specific reference to the needs of older workers. Then, identify and argue how the provision of education should be best organised to assist workers aged over 45 years maintain their competence through the rest of their working life. Your assignment should, using appropriate literature and illustrative examples from your work or vocational practice, argue a case for how best educational provisions can support the learning needs of older workers. Your response needs to include:
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a critical account of the what constitutes the current and transforming requirements for your vocational practice, including how individuals participate in that practice; an account of some key considerations in maintaining and developing further the requirements of that work practice, with specific reference to older workers; and an argued case for how best provisions within vocational education with a specific consideration for those provisions likely to be helpful for maintaining the competence of workers aged over 45.

Criteria & Marking: The assignment will be assessed against the following criteriay y

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The comprehensiveness of the account of the work practice and the strength of your analysis about how individuals are able to participate and learn in that practice. The strength of the case that identifies the key considerations in developing further individuals' capacities to conduct the changing demands of the workplace and how these considerations reflect the needs of older workers and The strength of case about vocational education provision scan assisting lifelong learning and comprehensiveness of support for your position. The quality of the written work, that is, the structure and presentation of the paper, the clarity of expression and the use of supportive research and literature

A full criteria sheet outlining the standards and weightings of the criteria will be published in the course site on learning@griffith. Please use it to guide your preparations and writing of the assignment.

Submission: Assignment submission All assignments are submitted electronically by the due date. Upload your assignment as a word document through the submission point located on the assessment page of the course web site in learning@griffith. This is a simple process and details on how to do this are posted on the announcements page of the course site in learning@griffith. All assignments should be word-processed using Times New Roman or Arial/Helvetica 12 pt font, double line spacing and 2.54 margins all round. It is useful to number the pages and put your name, course code and assignment number in the header or footer. Please ensure that you back up all files and that you keep a copy of each assignment.