Programme Incubator || Hawke's Bay District Health Board || HASTINGS || New Zealand
"Why it works ..."
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In contrast to career programmes based information, this innovation focuses on achieving results through a blend of modern adult learning models – taking students through a structured and active learning process that generates career awareness and ambitions.
In contrast to career programmes based information, this innovation focuses on achieving results through a blend of modern adult learning models – taking students through a structured and active learning process that generates career awareness and ambitions.
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According to educational psychologist Howard Gardner, many of today’s students do not actually understand what they learn. For many students, education has become nothing more than drill and response; there is no relevance for the materials the students are expected to learn (Gardner, 1991).
Piaget and other psychologists believe that the learner must be active to be engaged in real learning (Piaget, 1954, 1974). Learning becomes active when students are able to connect new knowledge with their prior understanding. Constructivists take this notion a bit further stating that a meaningful context that brings the real world into the classroom learning environment is key to promoting learning (Brown, Collins, & Duguid, 1989).
Programme Incubator operates within these models of best practice by transferring the experiences from health sector staff to participating students - all within the school environment.
Programme Incubator provides a scalable and transferrable method of experiencing the 'feel' for working in the health sector.
