As a relative newcomer to the aesthetics industry, but with 30 years’ experience in the education field, I was bemused by some of the terms attached to learning events in aesthetics. It might sound like a semantic splitting of hairs, but I do believe there is a reason we need to correctly label the education in which we are involved. Unless aesthetics educators make clear what learners are to get from an educational episode, they risk leaving learner expectations unmet and novices engaging in unsafe practice. Correctly labelling what we do allows us to provide a logical structure to our training to ensure that novices develop as quickly and as safely as they can.
Education is my catch all term for a wide range of activities wherein someone who is more expert, helps someone who is less expert to develop knowledge, skills or personal attributes relevant to their role. What then are the…
