Graduate Attributes, Learning and Employability

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hager, Paul (Editor), Holland, Susan (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Series: Lifelong Learning Book Series ; 6
• Subjects: Education.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Educational sociology.; Higher education.; Education > Philosophy.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Higher Education.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Sociology of Education.; Professional & Vocational Education.; Educational Philosophy.

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 beco...

Table of Contents:

• Nature And Development of Generic Attributes
• Graduate Attributes in an Age of Uncertainty
• Graduate Attributes and Changing Conceptions of Learning
• Graduate Employability and Lifelong Learning: A Need for Realism?
• The OECD: Its Role in the Key Competencies Debate and in the Promotion of Lifelong Learning
• Graduate Attributes and the Transition to Higher Education
• Academics’ Understandings of Generic Graduate Attributes: A Conceptual Basis for Lifelong Learning
• Skills Development: Ten Years of Evolution from Institutional Specification to a more Student-Centred Approach
• Lifelong Learning, Graduate Capabilities and Workplace Learning
• Work-Based Learning, Graduate Attributes and Lifelong Learning
• Generic Attributes and the First Job: Graduates’ Perceptions and Experiences
• Constructing Professionals’ Employ-Abilities: Conditions for Accomplishment
• Synthesis: A Lifelong Learning Framework for Graduate Attributes.