be embedded within an action learning framework - encapsulating live issues and personal goal setting - in order to support effectual entrepreneurship and sense-making by the students (Moreland and Thompson, 2016); • Reflection and emotion is an important aspect of the learning experience (Smith and Shaw, 2018; Puglis et al., 2015; also Lackéus and Williams Middleton, 2015 and 2018 for PG VCPs); • Team Academy [and other VCPs] is an artificially created learning environment with a local context in which pedagogical and cultural practices coalesce (Tosey at al., 2015); and • Much of the learning in VCPs occurs in informal settings and through self- directed activities, with informal opportunities as important to learning as the formal and more traditional (Blackwood et al., 2015, Puglis et al, 2015, Smith and Shaw, 2018).