After three years of planning my pracademic experience: making connections, building a relationship, pitching my proposal to my pracademic employer, and successfully applying for leave from my university , MY FIRST DAY IS SOON TO COMMENCE.
There is a mixture of anxiety and excitement which comes with a new job, regardless of the age or experience of the new employee. My anxiety arises from my fear that my technology skills will fall short of what is desired. After all I will be working at Worrells ( which has been a paperless office for a significant number of years). I am excited, however, as already I can see my pracademic experience informing my teaching. Having read and signed where requested, all of the online pre-commencement induction documents ( comprising 19 documents of varying lengths) I am prompted to include examples and activities of ethical work practices and fair work obligations of employers and employees into the curriculum of the Business Law course at Griffith. Bring on the challenges and opportunities of my pracademic experience - I can't wait!
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A Pracademic is someone who is both an academic and a practitioner in a particular discipline. Usually pracademics begin their working lives as practitioners and subsequently take on the mantle of academic later in their working life. In my case, the reverse is true. Foremost an academic and now taking on the role of an Insolvency Practitioner at Worrells Insolvency and Forensic Accountants, Gold Coast for sixteen weeks commencing on Monday, 5th February, 2018.
One of my purposes in being a "Pracademic" is to experience insolvency practitioners at work which will be the foundation for the creation of teaching and learning case studies, blending practice with theory to increase not only students' technical knowledge but also their employability skills. The Insolvency Pracademic Blog will record my impressions and reflections while undertaking my "Pracademic Experience". Please follow my journey for the next sixteen weeks.... |
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