9781032113364-1032113367-Soft Skills and Hard Values (Routledge Series on Life and Values Education)

Soft Skills and Hard Values (Routledge Series on Life and Values Education)

ISBN-13: 9781032113364
ISBN-10: 1032113367
Edition: 1
Author: Kerry J. Kennedy, John Chi-Kin Lee, Margarita Pavlova
Publication date: 2022
Publisher: Routledge
Format: Hardcover 234 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781032113364
ISBN-10: 1032113367
Edition: 1
Author: Kerry J. Kennedy, John Chi-Kin Lee, Margarita Pavlova
Publication date: 2022
Publisher: Routledge
Format: Hardcover 234 pages

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Soft Skills and Hard Values (Routledge Series on Life and Values Education) (ISBN-13: 9781032113364 and ISBN-10: 1032113367), written by authors Kerry J. Kennedy, John Chi-Kin Lee, Margarita Pavlova, was published by Routledge in 2022. With an overall rating of 3.8 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Soft Skills and Hard Values (Routledge Series on Life and Values Education) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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To help researchers, educators and policy makers understand and support the development of 21st-century skills in schools, this edited volume explores the various iterations of "soft" skills with a particular focus on their implications for values and evaluates ways in which "soft skills" and "hard" values can be integrated.

Discourse throughout the 21st century has focused on the changing nature of work, the need for new skill sets and the disruptive effects of new technologies. This has been a neo-liberal discourse that subordinated personal and individual needs to the needs of a productive workforce delivering more and more efficiencies linked to higher and higher profits. The solution is often seen to be in the development of a school curriculum that focuses on work-ready skills for an increasingly complex work environment and its demands. Agencies such as OECD and UNESCO highlight the need to link the skills agenda with complementary values. Yet this process is at a very early stage. The proponents of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) for example highlight the impact of new technologies, not just on work but also on the social world. Yet they neglect to explore the values that would be needed in these new disruptive environments.

This book takes up that issue and lays out the multiple value systems that are available for this new 21st century world. It is an important resource for policy makers, academics and teachers with responsibility for a new generation.

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