Soft Skills in Education - Putting the evidence in perspective (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	August 2021
First published:	2020
Authors:	Jaap Scheerens • Greetje Van Der Werf • Hester de Boer
Dimensions:	235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	239
Edition:	1st ed. 2020
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-054789-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Educational psychology Books > Social sciences > Education > Study & learning skills Books > Social sciences > Education > Organization & management of education > General
LSN:	3-03-054789-2
Barcode:	9783030547899

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