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Beyond the Skills Gap - Preparing College Students for Life and Work (Hardcover)
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Beyond the Skills Gap - Preparing College Students for Life and Work (Hardcover)
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How can educators ensure that young people who attain a
postsecondary credential are adequately prepared for the future?
Matthew T. Hora and his colleagues explain that the answer is not
simply that students need more specialized technical training to
meet narrowly defined employment opportunities. Beyond the Skills
Gap challenges this conception of the ""skills gap,"" highlighting
instead the value of broader twenty-first-century skills in
postsecondary education. They advocate for a system in which
employers share responsibility along with the education sector to
serve the collective needs of the economy, society, and students.
Drawing on interviews with educators in two- and four-year
institutions and employers in the manufacturing and biotechnology
sectors, the authors demonstrate the critical importance of habits
of mind such as problem solving, teamwork, and communication. They
go on to show how faculty and program administrators can create
active learning experiences that develop students' skills across a
range of domains. The book includes in-depth descriptions of eight
educators whose classrooms exemplify the effort to blend technical
learning with the cultivation of twenty-first-century habits of
mind. The study, set in Wisconsin, takes place against the backdrop
of heated political debates over the role of public higher
education. This thoughtful and nuanced account, enriched by keen
observations of postsecondary instructional practice, promises to
contribute new insights to the rich literature on workforce
development and to provide valuable guidance for postsecondary
faculty and administrators.
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