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Participation Criteria

Lindie ClarkA/g PACE Programs Director

L&T Week 2010

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Participation a key feature of the new curriculum (3rd P)

Policy context

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Criteria for Participation Units

• Just as People & Planet units need to satisfy criteria, so too do Participation Units

• Participation criteria approved by Senate November 2009. Available from ASQC website

• Need to submit case for each unit to FSQC and ASQC for approval ... call for 2011 nominations coming soon

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Requirements in two key areas

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Community engagement• Entering into a partnership of mutual benefit

Local, national, or international Or within MQ Formalised in MOU or agreement

• Choice of partner Reflects ethical standards of MQ Satisfies appropriate risk assessment criteria

• Projects or activities that Help the partner achieve their mission Promote the well being of people and planet

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• Rigorous academic framework to develop student capabilities• Units need pre-approved as Participation Units by FSQC/ASQC/Senate• Need to contain the following components

Learning & Teaching

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• Provide students with the opportunity to develop:

Learning & Teaching cont.

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• LTC resources and workshops • PACE Hub staff• Community of practitioners coming ... • Best practice seminars series coming ...• Criteria document itself (esp. re project types that help develop the required grad caps), e.g.

DON’T PANIC, there’s help!

• working within limited budgets, working around system blockages• requires student to understand problems from multiple perspectives and/or devise a range of effective solutions• students face situations where conventional ‘answers’ don’t work and where new approaches are needed

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The project ...

• helps students explore future career and study opportunities• enables students to critically reflect on and evaluate their own performance, including acknowledgement of limitations and mistakes• encourages students to recognise their own skill development (and gaps) and plan for further education and training

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Implementation

• 100-, 200- or 300-level• PG possible too, but not

required• Minimum 50% of unit workload

on participation (all 3 phases: orientation, experience, debrief)

• Minimum 20% of unit workload on experiential component

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Examples of participation activitiesInternships and Work-Integrated-Learning: e.g. Sociology, Media,

Engineering, Health, Business, Accounting, etc.Practicums with a partnership component: Education, Early ChildhoodField trips with a partnership component: community-based indigenous tourism initiatives in the Top End (Human Geography)Service learning: community service + learningCommunity development and/or research projects: multi-disciplinary or disciplinary-specific teamsCo-curricular activities: PAL, mentoring, volunteering (individual or group)PACE International pilot projects: PNG, Philippines, Peru, etcSocial capital investment: social incubators catering to local community needs; community learning centres, etc.

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•Accreditation of participation units for 2011 and beyondDiscipline-specific – embedded in UG programs and majorsInterdisciplinary and multidisciplinary teams – Faculty shell units

• Need to submit case for each proposed participation unit to FSQC and ASQC for approval ... call for 2011 nominations coming soon • Participation criteria and form available from ASQC website

What next?

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Lindie Clark A/g Programs DirectorNicole Yeates, Domestic Program CoordinatorJude Forder, International Program CoordinatorDave Rorke, International Program Officer

• Where are we? F9C• Phone: 9850 9927• Local and Regional Email: pace@mq.edu.au• PACE International Email: paceinternational@mq.edu.au

Meet the PACE Hub staff

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