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 preparing students for their professional careers. Through the internship, the student develops and acquires both academic and professional competences. The internship preparation, the internship itself and the portfolio stimulate the student to consciously think about their own development. This promotes self-knowlegde and critical thinking.

The student looks for a suitable organisation where an independent 'agogisch' project/trajectory is set up/carried out. The duration of the internship is 480 hours.

Additional info

More information about the internship can be found in the internship guidelines on Canvas. This information is also disseminated during a WPO in the academic year prior to the internship.

The internship portfolio may - on request of the student and with approval of the internship VUB coach - be written in a language other than Dutch.

If the student is working in the professional field of the ‘agoog', they may carry out the internship within the organisation where they are 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 by the titular holder in advance. In addition, the organisation concerned must agree to provide the necessary tutoring.

Learning Outcomes

Algemene competenties

The student acquires at least the following competences:

The student can describe and analyse the functioning of the organisation/sector in which the internship takes place;
The student has knowledge of one's own performance and can reflect on it;
The student develops competences required to perform the profession, linked to the learning results of the program;
The student subjects theory to practice and is able to clarify this.

This course contributes to the learning results of the program as described in the internship guidelines.

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: Internship is 480 hour, final portfolio, evalution documents (interim and final), final evaluation conversation.

Additional info regarding evaluation

The student is required to meet the following deadlines:

- at the latest 15 October, meeting with the internship VUB coach;
- before the start of the internship and by 31 October at the latest, signed documents;
- submit the evaluation documents (interim and final) of the local supervisor to the internship VUB coach;
- by May 10, 480 hours of internship;
- 1 month after the internship, submit the final portfolio to the internship VUB coach.

The portfolio must be submitted to the internship VUB coach at the latest one month after the last active internship day (mentioned in the internship agreement). Submitting the portfolio after this deadline or not submitting the portfolio and the evaluation forms, or performing less than the 480 hours of internship will result in 'an absent' as result code during the first examination period. The student will automatically be referred to the second examination period. The deadline for submission of the portfolio in the second examination period is 19 August.

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

For more information see internship guidelines.

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