Soft skills in education : putting the evidence in perspective

Soft skills in education : putting the evidence in perspective / Jaap Scheerens, Greetje van der Werf, Hester de Boer.

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...

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Main Authors: Scheerens, J. (Jaap) (Author), Werf, Greetje van der (Author), Boer, Hester de (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2020]
Subjects:
Soft skills > Study and teaching.
Educational psychology.
Social skills in children.
Educational strategies & policy.
Education.
Study & learning skills: general.
Education > Educational Policy & Reform > General.
Education > General.
Education > Educational Psychology.
Educational psychology
Social skills in children
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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