Apprenticeship Adult Education

18 ECTS credits
480 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 1021481BNR for all students in the 1st and 2nd semester at a (B) Bachelor - advanced level.

Semester

1st and 2nd semester

Enrollment based on exam contract

Impossible

Grading method

Grading (scale from 0 to 20)

Can retake in second session

Yes

Taught in

Dutch

Faculty

Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences

Department

Educatiewetenschappen

Educational team

Gert De Coorde
Free De Backer (course titular)

Activities and contact hours

480 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study

Course Content

The internship mainly focuses on the fifth educational pillar of the VUB: preparing students for their professional career. During this internship, students have the opportunity to become acquainted with and gain experience in the practice of the agoog. Through the internship, students develop and acquire professional competences in addition to academic competences. Also, the internship preparation, the internship itself and the internship e-portfolio encourage students to consciously reflect on their own development. This promotes self-knowledge and critical thinking skills.

Students search for a suitable internship organisation where an independent 'agogische praktijk' is set up/carried out. The duration of the internship is 480 hours. This gives students the opportunity to test their own abilities, explore the professional field and develop specific interests.

Additional info

More information on the internship is made available to students via the electronic learning platform Canvas. This information is also disseminated during a seminar in the academic year prior to the internship.

The internship e-portfolio may be written in a language other than Dutch upon the student's request and with the approval of the titular holder.

If the student is working in the professional field of the ‘agoog', the student may carry out the internship within the organisation where the student is employed, on condition that the internship is performed outside the normal range of tasks and working hours of the professional activity. The suitability of the organisation and the modalities under which the internship would be carried out must be assessed and approved in advance by the titular holder. In addition, the organisation concerned must agree to provide the necessary internship guidance.

Generative AI can be used in this course, further details will be provided during course activities and the Canvas Course Platform. Any use of generative AI should be properly referenced.

Learning Outcomes

General competences

This course contributes to the following programme-specific learning outcomes of the Bachelor's degree in Adult Education (see overview): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18.

Students will also achieve course-specific learning outcomes:

By the end of this course, the student can:

develop professional skills and attitudes required to perform the profession, including policy and organisational aspects;
apply the knowledge and skills acquired during the programme to practical situations with increasing independence;
critically link theory from the study programme as agoog to practice;
analyse and describe in own words the functioning of the organisation/sector in which the internship takes place;
critically reflect on their own performance in relation to the practice of the profession of agoog.

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
SELF Internship determines 100% of the final mark.

Within the SELF Internship category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Internship with a relative weight of 100 which comprises 100% of the final mark.

Note: Practice (480 hours of internship), final e-portfolio, midterm and final evaluation forms, and final evaluation interview. The student participates in all assignment categories to receive an overall assessment.

Additional info regarding evaluation

The student is required to meet the following deadlines:

no later than 24 October, preparatory meeting with the internship VUB coach;
before the start of the internship and at the latest on 31 October, signed documents;
submission of evaluation forms (midterm and final) from the local internship supervisor to the internship VUB coach;
by May 10th, completed 480 hours of internship;
1 month after the internship, submission of the final e-portfolio to the internship VUB coach.

The final internship e-portfolio must be submitted to the internship VUB coach no later than one month after the last active internship day (mentioned in the internship agreement; any change to this must be submitted in advance to the internship VUB coach). Submitting the portfolio after this deadline or not submitting the e-portfolio and the evaluation forms, or performing less than 480 hours of internship, or not having a final evaluation interview with the internship VUB coach, will result in an 'Absent' as an overall grade for the first exam period. The student will automatically be referred to the second exam period. The deadline for submitting the internship e-portfolio in the second exam period is 19 August.

The internship itself (480 hours) cannot be retaken in the second exam period. Only in exceptional cases and with the explicit consent of the internship VUB coach, it is possible to perform internship hours after the deadline of the first exam period.

For more information, see internship guidelines made available to students on the electronic learning platform Canvas.

Allowed unsatisfactory mark

The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context