Soft Skills In Education

Author : Jaap Scheerens,Greetje van der Werf,Hester de Boer
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9783030547875

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Soft Skills in Education by Jaap Scheerens,Greetje van der Werf,Hester de Boer Pdf

This book examines the global movement of putting more emphasis on students’ social and emotional development in education. It provides some order in the unstructured multitude of desirable socio-emotional educational objectives and ambitions that have resulted from this movement and builds on a careful conceptual analysis. It starts out by examining the roots of the movement and discusses different emphases. Next it makes use of instructional and psychological constructs and theories to arrive at meaningful categorizations of major domains and types of social-emotional “skills”. One of the key assumptions is that social and emotional attributes are malleable by means of educational interventions. The book reviews available research evidence for this assumption, taking into account psychological studies and meta-analyses. It then creates new evidence based on a new meta-analysis, which concentrated on the effects of educational interventions on skills associated with the conscientiousness factor of the Big5 taxonomy. In the final chapter, the book discusses the implications for educational policy and practice; a discussion in which attention is given to political and ethical questions about the desirability of treating social and emotional attributes as educational goals.

Author : Edoardo Rovida,Giulio Zafferri
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030772499

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The Importance of Soft Skills in Engineering and Engineering Education by Edoardo Rovida,Giulio Zafferri Pdf

This book explores in depth the significance of soft skills within engineering education and the profession of engineering and emphasizes the importance of integrating hard and soft skills effectively, thereby enhancing personal acumen. Among the most important soft skills are ability to communicate, courtesy, creativity, empaty, flexibility, integrity, positivity, problem solving, professionalism, resourcefulness, responsibility, a strong work ethic, and ability to work within a team. While hard skills are related to the left side of the brain and are linked to the intelligence quotient (IQ), soft skills are related to the right side of the brain and are linked to the emotional quotient (EQ). A person who fuses hard and soft skills successfully will be able to upgrade their professional behavior and become a difference maker (DM). Soft skills are of central importance in the context of Engineering 4.0, the new phase of engineering, and in Engineering 4.0 education, and this is the central focus of the book. The presented examples of the role of soft skills will also enable readers to self-evaluate, to identify those skills that require improvement, and ultimately to enhance their performance.

Author : Nancy Armstrong Melser
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475864908

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Soft Skills for Kids by Nancy Armstrong Melser Pdf

Children today are going through a lot—they are busy with school, involved in extracurricular activities, and trying to navigate the world of COVID and other concerns. Teachers and parents are busy too—with work, school, and parenting activities. How will they have the time to teach valuable skills such as manners and respect to children? These are “soft skills”; the skills necessary to work with others and be a respected and valuable citizen in the workplace of tomorrow. Soft Skills for Kids: In Schools, at Home, and Online, 2nd Edition, focuses on ways that teachers and parents can work together to teach soft skills to the children in their lives. This book is not a curriculum program or set of lessons to help children, but rather a series of “teachable moments” in which adults teach strategies to children as they happen. Finally, as the education of children has changed recently due to the pandemic with an increased number of children learning online, this book will be a great resource for how adults can work together to help children learn soft skills—in schools, at home, and online.

Author : Nagarajan, Suresh Kumar,R., Mohanasundaram
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781799834663

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Innovations and Technologies for Soft Skill Development and Learning by Nagarajan, Suresh Kumar,R., Mohanasundaram Pdf

Traditional education revolves around the teaching of technical skills, especially within STEM fields. However, soft skills—broadly, communication and intrapersonal skills—are essential within all fields, especially those frequently involving research and collaboration. However, the focus on teaching students to be adept communicators and team members remains woefully underdeveloped. Innovations and Technologies for Soft Skill Development and Learning is a pivotal reference source that explores the mental and psychological growth of individual learners at different stages of education concerning soft skills and the need for innovation and creativity to lead a successful career. Highlighting topics including higher education, emotional intelligence, and student behavior, this book is ideally designed for educators, curriculum developers, instructional designers, administrators, policymakers, academicians, researchers, and students.

Author : Tran Le Huu Nghia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000652093

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Building Soft Skills for Employability by Tran Le Huu Nghia Pdf

This book is among the first of its kind to comprehensively examine the implementation of soft skills in universities in the developing country, Vietnam. The context is unique as the implementation is taking place within the distinctive socio-economic, cultural and political characteristics of the country, amidst several simultaneously-executed educational reforms. Tran lays down the foundation for discussion by providing readers with a comprehensive review of how soft skills implementation has come into existence in higher education across the globe, before diving into the implementation of soft skills in Vietnamese universities. He goes on to highlight the interesting differences in the conceptualization of soft skills between Vietnamese universities and those in the West. The book depicts and compares how university leaders and managers tackle contextual factors, submit to constraints enforced by political forces, and how they use institutional advantages available for implementation. It goes further to examine how personal and contextual factors affect teachers’ and students’ engagement with the implementation, and highlights the role of work-integrated learning and extra-curricular activities in developing soft skills for students. Finally, the book investigates the contribution of external stakeholders, such as alumni, employers, skills experts, and local authorities, to the implementation and obstacles that prevent their participation. This book will be a valuable reference for the implementation of soft skills in higher education around the world.

Author : Nitin Bhatnagar
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Communicative competence
ISBN : 8131760340

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Effective Communication and Soft Skills by Nitin Bhatnagar Pdf

Author : Alan W. Ewert
Publisher : Human Kinetics
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-08
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781450442510

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Outdoor Adventure Education by Alan W. Ewert Pdf

Outdoor Adventure Education: Foundations, Theories, Models, and Research steeps students in the theories, concepts, and developments of outdoor adventure education, preparing them for careers in this burgeoning field. This text is based on author Alan W. Ewert’s pioneering book Outdoor Adventure Pursuits: Foundations, Models, and Theories. Ewert and Sibthorp, both experienced practitioners, researchers, and educators, explore the outdoor adventure field today in relation to the changes that have occurred since Ewert’s first book. The authors present a comprehensive text on outdoor and adventure foundations, theories, and research that will provide the basis for the next generation of professionals.

Author : Kerry J. Kennedy,Margarita Pavlova,Zijian Li
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1003219411

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Soft Skills and Hard Values by Kerry J. Kennedy,Margarita Pavlova,Zijian Li Pdf

"To help researchers, educators and policy makers understand and support the development of 21st Century skills in schools, this edited volume explores the various iterations of 'soft' skills with a particular focus on their implications for values and evaluates ways in which 'soft skills' and 'hard' values can be integrated. Discourse throughout the 21st century has focussed on the changing nature of work, the need for new skill sets and the disruptive effects of new technologies. This has been a neo-liberal discourse that subordinated personal and individual needs to the needs of productive workforce delivering more and more efficiencies linked to higher and higher profits. The solution is often seen to be in the development of a school curriculum that focuses on work-ready skills for an increasingly complex work environment and its demands. Agencies such as OECD and UNESCO highlight the need to link the skills agenda with complementary values. Yet this process is at a very early stage. The proponents of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) for example highlight the impact of new technologies, not just on work but also on the social world. Yet they neglect to explore the values that would be needed in these new disruptive environments. This book takes up that issue and lays out the multiple value systems that are available for this new 21st century world. It is an important resource for policy makers, academics and teachers with responsibility for a new generation"--

Author : Goodheart-Willcox Publisher
Publisher : Goodheart-Wilcox Publisher
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1645646459

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Soft Skills for the Workplace by Goodheart-Willcox Publisher Pdf

Soft Skills for the Workplace is a nontraditional approach to learning basic employability skills needed in today's workplace. Well-developed soft skills help an individual find a job, perform well in the workplace, and gain personal success in life and career. By studying this text, you will learn the soft skills that employers recommend, and require, of employees. Learning how to interact professionally with customers, coworkers, and employers is one sure way to prepare for your future. In today's workplace, it is necessary to have job-specific skills to perform on the job as well as know-how to interact with coworkers and customers. You may be the most qualified person in your field in terms of hard skills, but if you lack soft skills, you may have a challenge finding and retaining employment. No matter your career choice, Soft Skills for the Workplace will help you help you jump-start your future. In today's competitive work environment, well-developed employability skills can help you stand out in the crowd Soft skills are the new hard skills for the 21st century.

Author : Robert M. Sherfield
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : College student orientation
ISBN : 8131724670

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Cornerstone: Developing Soft Skills by Robert M. Sherfield Pdf

Author : Laura Jana
Publisher : Nero
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-27
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1863959017

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The Toddler Brain by Laura Jana Pdf

What if, despite the best of intentions, we are raising our children to succeed in a world that no longer exists?The Toddler Brainhelps parents recognize the connection that exists between their own parenting behaviours and their child's ability to acquire valuable twenty-first-century skills.

Author : Joan DeJaeghere,Erin Murphy-Graham
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9783030852146

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Life Skills Education for Youth by Joan DeJaeghere,Erin Murphy-Graham Pdf

This open access volume critically reviews a diverse body of scholarship and practice that informs the conceptualization, curriculum, teaching and measurement of life skills in education settings around the world. It discusses life skills as they are implemented in schools and non-formal education, providing both qualitative and quantitative evidence of when, with whom, and how life skills do or do not impact young women’s and men’s lives in various contexts. Specifically, it examines the nature and importance of life skills, and how they are taught. It looks at the synergies and differences between life skills educational programmes and the way in which they promote social and emotional learning, vocational/employment education, and health and sexuality education. Finally, it explores how life skills may be better incorporated into education and how such education can address structures and relations of power to help youth achieve desired future outcomes, and goals set out in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Life skills education has gained considerable attention by education policymakers, researchers and educators as being the sine qua non for later achievements in life. It is nearly ubiquitous in global and national education policies, including the SDGs, because life skills are regarded as essential for a diverse set of purposes: reducing poverty, achieving gender equality, promoting economic growth, addressing climate change, fostering peace and global citizenship, and creating sustainable and healthy communities. Yet, to achieve these broad goals, questions persist as to which life skills are important, who needs to learn them, how they can be taught, and how they are best measured. This book addresses these questions.

Author : Maria-Teresa Lepeley,Ernst von Kimakowitz,Roland Bardy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137555410

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Human Centered Management in Executive Education by Maria-Teresa Lepeley,Ernst von Kimakowitz,Roland Bardy Pdf

Human Centered Management in Executive Education provides a comprehensive insight on innovation in Executive Education with a unique global scope. The book integrates studies and experiences of 32 distinguished scholars from 15 countries who are working in the development of theories and practices to advance the human centered management paradigm, sustainability-based quality standards and continuous improvement in education. The discussion presents a well-balanced outlook that combines and contrasts research and programs from 16 developed and 16 developing countries, and the visions of 10 female and 22 male authors from North America, South America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa.

Author : Will Tyson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030587444

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Teaching and Learning Employability Skills in Career and Technical Education by Will Tyson Pdf

This book examines how industry-desired employability skills—or “soft skills”—are taught and learned in high school career and technical education (CTE) engineering and engineering technology programs. Identifying, recruiting, and keeping workers with strong personal and interpersonal skills is a constant challenge for STEM employers who need to hire young workers to replace an aging technical workforce. To answer the call, teachers interviewed explained that they maintain regimented daily classroom routines that include individual and small group hands-on activities and projects. In turn, their students explain learning personal responsibility, work ethic, teamwork, leadership, conflict management, and social skills in the classroom. Narratives from the workforce and classroom interweave to put employability skills frameworks into action.

Author : Nancy Armstrong Melser
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475846560

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Teaching Soft Skills in a Hard World by Nancy Armstrong Melser Pdf

This book will introduce fourteen of the most important soft skills in the field of education. It will explain how each skill is used in teaching as well as ideas for how to model and explain them in college classrooms, field experiences, and student teaching. The chapters also contain ideas for administrators and mentor teachers who are working with beginning teachers. Hopefully, by learning the soft skills of teaching, pre-service education students and beginning teachers will become successful instructors and models of good citizenship in future classrooms.