Abstract
Graduates from all over the world face a labour market completely transformed by dynamic changes. Indeed, employers nowadays are hiring employees with employability skills, thus forcing universities to produce graduates who ideally respond to their needs. Faced with this pressure, universities are required to engage with businesses to develop teaching methods that foster employability skills. Several scholars view academic service learning as the required pedagogy for universities to achieve such an objective. Whilst service-learning implementation is known with public institutions and non-governmental organizations, little research has been done on its application with businesses. Therefore, this study seeks to investigate the factors influencing faculty willingness to engage in such an approach with community-based businesses in Africa, especially in the Benin Republic. This study adopts a sequential mixed method. A focus group discussion was conducted with ten faculty and the results were extended with a quantitative method. Findings indicate that faculty competencies in service learning, and resources support positively influence the willingness of faculty to implement such an approach while organizational support and business engagement show a negative effect.
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Hermine, C. Sossouhounto, International SEPT Competence Center–Leipzig University, Germany
Utz Dornberger, International SEPT Competence Center–Leipzig University, Germany
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Conference: PCE2023
Stream: Higher education
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Hermine ., & Dornberger U. (2023) Factors Influencing Faculty Willingness to Engage in Academic Service-Learning Approach With Businesses for Graduates Employability Skills Development: Benin Perspectives ISSN: 2758-0962 The Paris Conference on Education 2023: Official Conference Proceedings https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2758-0962.2023.70
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2758-0962.2023.70
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