Overview
- Captures student and graduate concerns about their generic capacities
- Explains the importance of generic capacities for contemporary workplaces and why acquiring these kinds of capacities is a lifelong, developmental process
- Highlights, via case studies, a range of practical strategies for promoting generic capacities
- Indicates the language traps to avoid in describing and assessing generic capacities
- Provides a coherent framework that links lifelong learning with the development of generic capacities
Part of the book series: Lifelong Learning Book Series (LLLB, volume 6)
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About this book
In these complex and challenging times, students, teachers and employers are all interested in the development of generic abilities as these typically make the difference between good and indifferent employees, successful and unsuccessful learners. This book explains why generic capacities have become so important and argues that the process of acquiring them is both lifelong and developmental. By using case studies and theoretical analyses the authors collectively provide a comprehensive and contemporary coverage of the issues concerning generic abilities.
Traps to avoid in describing and assessing generic aspects of learning are indicated, as well as practical suggestions for improving the teaching of generic capacities in vocational and university settings. The views of students transitioning to higher education as well as recent graduates are captured. Curriculum and policy matters are discussed in depth. A framework for lifelong learning encapsulating the development of generic capacities is outlined and the relationships between learning, working and leadership are explored.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Graduate Attributes, Learning and Employability
Editors: Paul Hager, Susan Holland
Series Title: Lifelong Learning Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-5342-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-5341-2Published: 15 February 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7349-5Published: 25 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-5342-9Published: 20 May 2007
Series ISSN: 1871-322X
Series E-ISSN: 2730-5325
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 310
Topics: Higher Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Sociology of Education, Professional & Vocational Education, Educational Philosophy