Seminar Research in Co-operative Education
WatCACE, the Waterloo Centre for the Advancement of Co-operative Education, announces a new series of monthly seminars about research on co-operative education. The goals, a memo says, “are to share research results and their possible implications with the broader community, to raise awareness of co-operative education as a pedagogical model that is a suitable target for both theoretical and empirical work, and to highlight the best of research on co-op. At each session an individual from Waterloo or elsewhere will present her/his research work on co-op, and there’ll be time for questions and discussion. The first sessions in this winter term will feature work being done at Waterloo. Subsequent sessions will feature speakers from other places as well as local speakers.” The series starts January 28 (12:30, Tatham Centre room 2218) with words from Maureen Drysdale, psychology professor at St. Jerome’s University. “She, with colleagues, has done extensive SSHRC-funded work on school-to-work transitions and, more recently on the psychological consequences of the co-op experience. She also is currently the leader of a large, international project (fourteen universities in eight countries) on entering and exiting characteristics of both co-op and regular students.” Later speakers: February 25, Kerry Mahoney of Career Services; March 30, Nancy Waite of the School of Pharmacy; April 20, Judene Pretti, Director of the WatPD professional development program for co-op students.