Abstract
The CARE Framework is a human-centred, values-led model for student and graduate development. It expands existing employability approaches by integrating wellbeing, identity, and whole-self learning. Built around four interconnected domains: Connection, Awareness, Reflection, and Empowerment, CARE supports students to grow in confidence, purpose, and connection, developing in ways that are relational, reflective, and rooted in their lived experience. The framework is contextual, recognising that development is not separate from a learner’s lived experience, background, and environment. Informed by research in design thinking, behaviour change, and inclusive pedagogy, CARE offers a practical and theoretically grounded framework for embedding sustainability, equity, and personal growth into higher education. Mapped to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it supports learners not only as future employees, but as capable, purposeful contributors to a complex and changing world.
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Divisions: | Leeds School of the Arts |
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Status: | Published |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | graduate employability, student development framework, future-ready graduates, higher education employability, graduate attributes, holistic graduate skills, 21st century competencies, graduate success skills, employability framework, student agency and confidence, whole-self education, wellbeing in higher education, student wellbeing and identity, personal development in university, values-led learning, mental health and employability, education for resilience, graduate mental health, reflective graduate development, sustainable graduate futures, education for sustainability, UN SDGs and graduate skills, social justice education, climate justice learning, education for changemaking, responsible graduate development, inclusive learning environments, connection and belonging in university, student belonging framework, relational pedagogy, peer learning and mentoring, culturally responsive education, co-creation in education, CARE framework education, CARE model student development, frameworks for graduate attributes, employability models in higher education, holistic models of student success, values-based graduate frameworks, post-employability models |
SWORD Depositor: | Symplectic |
Depositing User (symplectic) | Deposited by Moriarty, Lauren |
Date Deposited: | 08 Jul 2025 12:47 |
Last Modified: | 11 Jul 2025 23:01 |
Item Type: | Other |