Pedagogical Day 2024 - Competence Development through Smooth Transitions

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The focus of the Pedagogical Day 2024 is collaboration within formal education at different stages, to build sustainable study paths for today's students.

With competence-based structures, we can support self-directed learning and competence development toward chosen professions. Formal education at different stages needs to collaborate to build sustainable study paths that feel smooth and meaningful for today's students.

Competence-based curricula are a natural choice for professional education, which aims to provide the labor market with skilled workers. Developing competence-based curricula takes time and requires careful consideration. What can universities of applied sciences learn from secondary vocational education, where they have long experience with competence-based curricula?

We want to enable smooth transitions to Arcada for students graduating from vocational education. How can we achieve this together?

The daily program is mainly in Swedish, but the afternoon lecture  (2 PM with PhD Niklas Rosenblad) will be in English. Registration (in Swedish) . 

Schedule:

  • 9:00 - 9:15 Welcome and Introduction, Carina Kiukas, Academic Director
  • 9:15 - 10:00 Christel Holmlund – Noréen, Expert on Competence-Based Curricula in Secondary Vocational Education, "What Opportunities Do Competence-Based Curricula Offer – Experiences from Secondary Vocational Education"
  • 10:00 - 10:15 Break
  • 10:15 - 11:15 Panel: Smooth Transitions – What Do We Understand by This? How Can We Develop the Concept? Panel Participants from Prakticum, Folkhälsan Education, Axxell, and Arcada.
    - Anna Pensar-Kuivumäki, Principal, Folkhälsan Education
    - Lotta Sjöblom, Head of Education, Prakticum
    - Annika Stadius, Director of Arcada Services
    - Emilia Söderlund, Degree Supervisor, Axxell
    - A teacher from Arcada?
  • 11:15 - 12:15 Lunch
  • 12:15 - 1:45 Workshops on Meaningful Study Paths. With students' different competencies and needs as a starting point, we strive to create a study path that is smooth and meaningful. The workshop focuses on themes we have identified based on experiences. How can we support self-directed learning with a focus on these themes?
    - Competencies for Higher Education 
    - Language Competence for Higher Education and Working Life 
    - Mathematical Competence for Higher Education 
    - Well-being Support and Services 
  • 2:00 - 3:00 Niklas Rosenblad, PhD. Postdoctoral Researcher, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki, "What is Vocational Bildung and Is There a Problem with Competency-Based Curricula? A Realist Analysis"
  • 3:00 - 3:15 Summary and Conclusion