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Graduate Attributes, Learning and Employability

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Editors:
  1. Paul Hager

    1. University of Technology, Australia

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  2. Susan Holland

    1. Edith Co an University, Australia

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  • 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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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIV
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  2. Introduction

    • Paul Hager, Susan Holland
    Pages 1-15

  3. Nature And Development of Generic Attributes

    • Paul Hager
    Pages 17-47

  4. Graduate Attributes in an Age of Uncertainty

    • Ronald Barnett
    Pages 49-65

  5. Graduate Attributes and Changing Conceptions of Learning

    • Christopher Winch
    Pages 67-89

  6. Graduate Employability and Lifelong Learning: A Need for Realism?

    • Geoffrey Hinchliffe
    Pages 91-104

  7. The OECD: Its Role in the Key Competencies Debate and in the Promotion of Lifelong Learning

    • Andrew Gonczi
    Pages 105-124

  8. Graduate Attributes and the Transition to Higher Education

    • Lesley Scanlon
    Pages 125-148

  9. Academics’ Understandings of Generic Graduate Attributes: A Conceptual Basis for Lifelong Learning

    • S.C. Barrie
    Pages 149-167

  10. Skills Development: Ten Years of Evolution from Institutional Specification to a more Student-Centred Approach

    • Mark Atlay
    Pages 169-186

  11. Lifelong Learning, Graduate Capabilities and Workplace Learning

    • Catherine Down
    Pages 187-205

  12. Work-Based Learning, Graduate Attributes and Lifelong Learning

    • David Boud, Nicky Solomon
    Pages 207-220

  13. Generic Attributes and the First Job: Graduates’ Perceptions and Experiences

    • Ina Te Wiata
    Pages 221-242

  14. Constructing Professionals’ Employ-Abilities: Conditions for Accomplishment

    • David Beckett, Dianne Mulcahy
    Pages 243-265

  15. Synthesis: A Lifelong Learning Framework for Graduate Attributes

    • Susan Holland
    Pages 267-307
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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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From the reviews: “This Australian book refers to new pedagogic aspects … . This Volume 6 of the Lifelong Learning Book Series is an Australian contribution to keep scholars and professionals informed about and abreast of current developments and to advance research … . Addressing is a whole spectrum of educational specialists (of course teachers and students … as well as curriculum designers, psychologists, sociologists – even employers’ managers and recruiters) plus the marginally involved and general intelligent readers.” (Karl H. Wolf, Academici, October, 2009)

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Technology, Australia

    Paul Hager

  • Edith Co an University, Australia

    Susan Holland

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