Employability in a globalising economy: implications for engineering training

Richardson, Pikay

doi:10.1049/esej:20000407

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“…Employability has been explored extensively through lenses of the (global) economy (e.g. Benner, Leete, & Pastor, 2007;Lavy & Yadin, 2013;Richardson, 2000), psychology (e.g. Dries, Forrier, De Vos, & Pepermans, 2014;Fugate, Kinicki, & Ashforth, 2004;Vanhercke, De Cuyper, & Peeters, 2013), and education and the role of tertiary institutions (e.g.…”

Section: Employment and Migrationmentioning

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Addressing societal discourses: negotiating an employable identity as a former refugee

Greenbank

Marra

2020

Language and Intercultural Communication

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This paper explores a critical area of refugee resettlement, namely securing stable, desirable employment in host nations. When telling their 'narratives of flight', our analytic focus, refugees demonstrate discursive agency and identities that conflict with a societal stereotype of vulnerability and helplessness that employers might expect. Insights suggest opportunities for new ways of supporting former refugees to find appropriate employment in a context in which their agency may be constrained and their strengths overlooked. This includes challenges to wider societal discourses and a two-way strategy where onus is placed on 'hosts' as much as on newcomers.

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Addressing societal discourses: negotiating an employable identity as a former refugee

Greenbank

Marra

2020

Language and Intercultural Communication

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Pedagogical Orientations and Evolving Responsibilities of Technological Universities: A Literature Review of the History of Engineering Education

Martin,

Bombaerts,

Horst

et al. 2023

Sci Eng Ethics

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Current societal changes and challenges demand a broader role of technological universities, thus opening the question of how their role evolved over time and how to frame their current responsibility. In response to urgent calls for debating and redefining the identity of contemporary technological universities, this paper has two aims. The first aim is to identify the key characteristics and orientations marking the development of technological universities, as recorded in the history of engineering education. The second aim is to articulate the responsibility of contemporary technological universities given their different orientations and characteristics. For this, we first provide a non-systematic literature review of the key pedagogical orientations of technological universities, grounded in the history of engineering education. The five major orientations of technological universities presented in the paper are technical, economic, social, political, and ecological. We then use this historical survey to articulate the responsibilities of contemporary technological universities reflecting the different orientations. Technological universities can promote and foster the development of scientific, professional, civic, legal, or intra- and inter- generational responsibility. We argue that responsibility is not specific to any particular orientation, such that the concept is broadened to complement each orientation or mix of orientations of a technological university. Our contribution thus serves as a call for technological universities to self-reflect on their mission and identity, by offering a lens for identifying the orientations they currently foster and making explicit the responsibility arising from their current orientation or the ones they strive to cultivate.

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Trevelyan

Tilli

2007

J. Prof. Issues Eng. Educ. Pract.

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Employability in a globalising economy: implications for engineering training

Cited by 5 publications

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Addressing societal discourses: negotiating an employable identity as a former refugee

Addressing societal discourses: negotiating an employable identity as a former refugee

Pedagogical Orientations and Evolving Responsibilities of Technological Universities: A Literature Review of the History of Engineering Education

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