Soft Skills in Education
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-54786-8 (ISBN)
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.
Jaap Scheerens is Professor emeritus with the University of Twente in the Netherlands and currently associated with the research institute Oberon, in Utrecht. In his capacity as Professor of Educational Organization and Management, he was in charge of a research program on educational effectiveness and educational evaluation. During his career he was Scientific Director of a network of education faculties in the Netherlands and Director of the research institute of the Faculty of Education at the University of Twente. For many years he carried out activities for the OECD, as a chairman of a network to develop process indicators on educational systems and schools, and as chairman and member of the Questionnaire Experts Groups for PISA 2009 and 2012. He also coordinated numerous research projects funded by the European Union and worked as a consultant for the World Bank and UNESCO. He published 20 books and over 100 articles in international journals. He has also been involved as consultant and lecturer in many educational activities in Italy. Recently he was a member of scientific advisory boards of INDIRE and INVALSI.
1. Roots of the movement, development and criticism.- 2. Conceptual challenges.- 3. Evidence from psychological studies.- 4. Evidence from educational studies.- 5. Opening black boxes of the meta-analysis: what do the underlying studies look like?.- 6. Measurement of soft skills in education.- 7. Meta-analysis of educational interventions addressing conscientiousness facets.- 8. Recapitalization and discussion of the main findings and implications for educational practice, theory and research.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 27.08.2020 |
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| Zusatzinfo | XIV, 239 p. 6 illus. |
| Verlagsort | Cham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 553 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Pädagogische Psychologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Schlagworte | 21st century skills • Big5 personality traits • Big5 personality traits • Developmental Psychology • educational effectiveness • educational effectiveness knowledge base • Educational interventions • individual evaluation studies • malleability of personality traits • Meta-analysis • methodological weaknesses of the basic evaluation • methodological weaknesses of the basic evaluation studies • political economy of soft skills in education • social emotional learning • social emotional outcomes • social emotional skills • taxonomy of educational objectives • trait and skills measures |
| ISBN-10 | 3-030-54786-8 / 3030547868 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-030-54786-8 / 9783030547868 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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