The Seven Ages of Man
All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages…
As You Like it
Shakespeare, 1599
1. Infant ‘mewling and puking’
2. Whining schoolboy
3. Lover ‘sighing like a furnace’
4. Soldier ‘sudden and quick in quarrel’
5. Justice ‘full of wise saws’
6. Pantaloon ‘spectacles on nose and pouch on side’
7. Second childishness ‘Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything’
Seven ages
Functions of higher education
• Developing and disseminating advanced-level knowledge and skills through teaching and scholarship
• Generating new knowledge and developing new applications of knowledge
Thereby:• developing and maintaining a just, civil and
sustainable society• building the national economy
Sutton, 2009
• Entry to practice level education• Safe beginning level practitioner• Skills acquisition• Communication, self-awareness, teamwork?
• Ongoing professional development• Advanced skills• Leadership, mentoring • Change management
Ages 2 through 6 (7?)
• Changing social/employment context • Technology, work structures & requirements• No longer ‘jobs for life’• Globalisation of work
• Individual, employers, government• Sustaining employability• Transforming employment• Enhancing employment
Ages 2-7 con’t
Billett et al. 2012
Stakeholder Sustaining employability
Transforming employment
Enhancing employment
Individual Continuing to remain employable
Transforming occupational role
Seeking advancement and promotion
Employer Competent workforce to meet current and emerging skills needs
Workforce development – re-engineering workforce
Succession planning
Government Continued employment and resisting redundancy
Developing the capacities for occupations in demand
Having systems with the capacity to contribute fully and for a long working life
We are either progressing
or retrograding all the
while; there is no such
thing as remaining
stationary in this life.James Freeman Clarke (1810-1888)
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