Designing Management Curriculum for Workplace Readiness: Developing Students’ Soft Skills

Ritter, Barbara; Small, Erika E.; Mortimer, John; Doll, Jessica L.

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“…A practical set of workplace competencies that include the skills of communication, team building, decision-making, and thinking that is innovative and sustainable should never be overlooked (Audebrand, Camus, & Michaud, 2017). In particular, teamwork and collaboration are two important skills that help business students negotiate differing perspectives and reach a consensus for accepted decisions in order to achieve team objectives and goals (Ritter, Small, Mortimer, & Doll, 2018).…”

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The impact of perceived enjoyment on team effectiveness and individual learning in a blended learning business course: The mediating effect of knowledge sharing

Lin

Huang

2020

AJET

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With advances in information and communication technology, blended learning has become an effective approach for highlighting disciplinary effects and accommodating student population diversity. Faculty members in business schools have developed an understanding of design approaches that have evolved and selected appropriate designs for blended courses. This study combines the approaches of blended and team-based learning to support a management course. This study involved 197 undergraduate business students from two Taiwanese universities. Their perceptions of the course were elicited through survey questions. Subsequent quantitative analysis has revealed the relationships among learners’ perceived enjoyment, knowledge sharing, team effectiveness, and perceived individual learning. This study documents education benefits, pedagogical implications, and research limitations in applying this approach to business education. Those points are developed along with recommendations regarding future research directions.

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The impact of perceived enjoyment on team effectiveness and individual learning in a blended learning business course: The mediating effect of knowledge sharing

Lin

Huang

2020

AJET

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“…Образовательные учреждения в разных странах по-разному решают задачу формирования soft skills посредством учебных дисциплин, но о необходимости изменения образовательных программ с целью ориентации их на soft skills говорят многие ученые 4 [12,16,23,26,27]. Российские исследователи этой проблемы отмечают, что большое количество появившихся в стране частных учебных заведений не решило задачу распространения или освоения soft skills посредством узкопрофессиональных учебных программ [28].…”

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Scientific Research on the Issue of Soft Skills Development (Review of the Data in International Databases of Scopus, Web of Science)

Tsalikova

Пахотина

2019

Obraz. nauka

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Introduction. In today’s world, professionals in any sphere of occupation should have soft skills in order to be in demand in the labour market, to quickly build a career and to achieve personal success. Soft skills involve: skills to communicate, to think creatively and unconventionally, to work in a team and to take responsibility, to organise own time effectively and to adapt quickly in new situations, etc. Therefore, it is necessary to be an owner of social qualities, which are commonly referred to as universal competencies, aimed at to finding optimal balanced solutions in a wide range of daily professional tasks. These skills are not quantifiable and are not generally described in job descriptions, but precisely these skills ensure high efficiency and productivity in any industry. In Western countries, the issues and strategies for soft skills formation in different categories of population have been studied for quite some time. Recently, these problems have become much more common among Russian scientists. The growing relevance of this issue is related to the changes in educational system, the changes in educational and personal guidelines, and the requirements for professional activities. This article is an overview of scientific Russian and foreign publications devoted to the aspects of soft skills development.The aims of the present research are the following: to identify the main trends in the study of soft skills and the possibilities for their acquisition by a person; to find out the similarities and differences between Russian and foreign studies; to determine the most promising scientific inquiry.Methodology and research methods. The study is based on the comparative-historical method. The authors used content-analysis and comparative analysis of documents, articles and results of statistical reports in international databases of Scopus and Web of Science within the period from 1975 to March 2019.Results and scientific novelty. For the first time, the authors conducted retrospective panoramic review of publications on soft skills, systemised additional information concerning the topic under discussion and identified the similarities between existing problems in different countries: lack of appropriate attention to soft skills development when designing educational programmes; insufficient involvement of employers in this process; complexity of the process of observing and evaluating soft skills; difference between the set of competencies acquired by graduates during studies with expectations and demand in the labour market, etc. Diverse ways of soft skills development are offered: organisation of special courses taught out of the subject context (which have already shown their inefficiency), mastering soft skills in parallel with the process of subject-based training or through the potential of particular disciplines. The international scientific community agrees with the statement that educational programmes, in any case, need to be refocused on the soft skills development. However, the general trend is the presentation in most studies of local statistical results, rather narrow professional topics of research and limited time (1–2 academic years). Concerning methodological tools for measuring universal social skills, both Russian and foreign authors prefer case study, classroom research and questionnaires.In general, Russian pedagogical science demonstrates the same vector of development as foreign science, but passes the same stages as other countries with a lag. The only significant difference was found in the research topic: according to the publications of Russian scientists, little attention is given to the problem of migrants’ soft skills. Indeed, the issue of soft skills development is one of the most relevant problems abroad. This can probably be attributed to the specifics of migration processes: for instance, many foreign citizens with completely different cultural and religious mentalities arrive in the European Union; on the contrary, Russia is migrated mainly from former Soviet republics, wherein people are close to the Russians in emotional intelligence.Practical significance. The results of the analytical review allow the scientific and pedagogical community to obtain a comprehensive picture of the main trends in studying the problems of soft skills development and to identify priority directions of further research.

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“…However, currently there are still many Adiwiyata schools that have not reached this stage due to the implementation of the curriculum that has not been optimized yet, whereas the vital aspect of Adiwiyata program is the curriculum. The curriculum is a component that can influence student achievement, teacher guidance in practice, and a framework for achieving educational goals (Ritter, Small, Mortimer, & Doll, 2017;Yates, 2016). Adiwiyata School has its own peculiarities in curriculum management, namely the environment-based curriculum.…”

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The Implementation of Environment-Based Curriculum in Adiwiyata State Primary School

Cahyanti¹,

Raharja²

2020

Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Learning Innovation and Quality Education (ICLIQE 2019)

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The Indonesian government implements Adiwiyata program in some schools to improve the next generation character of environmental caring. An important component of the Adiwiyata program is an environment-based curriculum that focuses on environmental management and protection. Some schools still face on the challenges of this curriculum and some have worked on it well. This study aims to explore the implementation of environment-based curriculum at an Independent Adiwiyata State Primary School in Yogyakarta. This is a qualitative study involving principals, teachers, committees, and students. The data was collected through in-depth interviews and observations. Then, the collected data was analyzed using Miles and Huberman qualitative analysis. This study shows that: (1) the implementation of environmental education is integrated to the national curriculum (K-13); (2) the environmental materials for each grade refers to the Outline of The Material Content or GBIM; (3) students are directly involved in the environmental activities through learning, extracurricular and habituation; (4) the environmentally-friendly facilities are used in the implementation of education; and (5) school establishes partnerships with various parties to support curriculum achievement. These findings can bring practical benefits as it can help the school to evaluate the curriculum, inspire other Adiwiyata schools by the principles found in this study. Besides, it also helpful for further researchers who concern on environment-based curriculum.

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Designing Management Curriculum for Workplace Readiness: Developing Students’ Soft Skills

Cited by 161 publications

References 24 publications

The impact of perceived enjoyment on team effectiveness and individual learning in a blended learning business course: The mediating effect of knowledge sharing

The impact of perceived enjoyment on team effectiveness and individual learning in a blended learning business course: The mediating effect of knowledge sharing

Scientific Research on the Issue of Soft Skills Development (Review of the Data in International Databases of Scopus, Web of Science)

The Implementation of Environment-Based Curriculum in Adiwiyata State Primary School

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