Publication
Title
Fashioning a master's degree
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Abstract
Fashion has a varied and explosive history. Our responsibility as educators preparing students and therefore careers for this context places us in a very difficult and complex position. Do we prepare students to be successful or do we prepare them to invest in their industry? In this paper, we construct our story of developing an ethical, sustainable international masters degree in Fashion Management. It is a journey of development that sees higher education establishments from Belgium and Italy join together with a third-party university from an emerging third-world market in sharing and developing a group of international students willing to invest and become industry transformers. Integral to our approach is context and the importance of narrative and responsibility for the learner; as such, this requires a return to old andragogic versus pedagogic education philosophies. Our account provides a full description of the rationale for aligning the pedagogic with andragogic and this involves learners to actually experience and understand in context. The principal aim of this paper is to explore the experience of introducing narratives between fashion industry and academia in these different locations as a means of raising issues regarding future responsibility and thereby develop critical reflexive skills that will be valuable in other geographical and market contexts for the future.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Arts and humanities in higher education. - Place of publication unknown
Publication
Place of publication unknown : 2019
ISSN
1474-0222
DOI
10.1177/1474022219833600
Volume/pages
18 :2-3 (2019) , p. 250-268
ISI
000469004900010
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UAntwerpen
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Creation 18.03.2019
Last edited 27.10.2024
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