Generic skills at work: implications for occupationally-oriented education.

Autor/in	Stasz, Cathleen
Titel	Generic skills at work: implications for occupationally-oriented education.
Quelle	Aus: Nijhof, Wim (Hrsg.): Key qualifications in work and education. Dordrecht: Kluwer Acad. Publ. (1998) S. 187-206Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben 60; Tabellen 2
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Sammelwerksbeitrag
Schlagwörter	Kommunikation; Problemlösen; Berufsanforderung; Berufsfeld; Grundfertigkeit; Technik; Arbeitnehmer; USA
Abstract	The author takes a socio-cultural approach as a starting point to examine generic skills in the context of technical work. It focuses on three skill areas - problem solving, communications, and teamwork, which both educators and employers identify as important. The study examines several questions: What generic skills are evident in technical work? How do workers conceive of them? How do skills vary across jobs and work contexts? What perceptions do employers have about their skill needs? What are the implications for occupationally- oriented work? ... There is a lack of clear conceptual framework for defining and assessing skills, and the author therefore reviews some recent proposals such as the foundation skills defined by the Secretary of Labor's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCAN). The author is seeking a better understanding of skills by viewing them as features of the workplace as a social system. (DIPF/ orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2001_(CD)