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Descriptions of conservation practice typically tend to focus on the range of activities under-taken by conservators and on the quality of the outcomes achieved. Using case studies, this paper examines the conservation tasks that can be explored within teaching, from undergraduate through to postgraduate level, and describes how these can be used to help practitioners effectively develop and achieve the competencies required in the sector. In higher education, the need to show this developmental framework explicitly, capturing progressive challenge in an auditable way when all of the students are doing ‘conservation’, is an increasing pressure. By setting out this progression in terms of com-\udplexity and using the language employed in education to describe an increasing sophistication in conservation practice the sector as a whole creates the opportunity to offer descriptions of the degree of sophistication of expert\udpractitioners. This may be useful in workplace discussions, as colleagues sometimes struggle to understand the complexity underlying proficient practice. |
