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Record Nr.

UNINA9910416087703321

Autore

Scheerens Jaap

Titolo

Soft Skills in Education : Putting the evidence in perspective / / by Jaap Scheerens, Greetje van der Werf, Hester de Boer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020

ISBN

9783030547875

3030547876

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (243 pages)

Disciplina

658.3124

Soggetti

Study skills

Education and state

Education

Educational psychology

Study and Learning Skills

Educational Policy and Politics

Educational Psychology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Roots of the movement, development and criticism -- 2. Conceptual challenges -- 3. Evidence from psychological studies -- 4. Evidence from educational studies -- 5. Opening black boxes of the meta-analysis: what do the underlying studies look like? -- 6. Measurement of soft skills in education -- 7. Meta-analysis of educational interventions addressing conscientiousness facets -- 8. Recapitalization and discussion of the main findings and implications for educational practice, theory and research. .

Sommario/riassunto

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.