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Planning for uncertainty: soft skills, hard skills and innovation.
- Source :
- Reflective Practice; Oct2011, Vol. 12 Issue 5, p615-628, 14p
- Publication Year :
- 2011
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Abstract
- The objective of this article is to explore how education for innovation of our young people may help develop an innovative mindset. The article develops the theoretical justification of a skills set which, it is argued, is fundamental for the development of an innovative mindset of young people, and consequently their personal development. We focus here on the qualitative work - focus groups and interviews with teaching staff and students aged 14-19 years - that informed our understanding of the five characteristics of this mindset; leadership, creativity, self-efficacy, energy and risk-propensity. The research attempted to capture the differences in context, constraints and school types and ethos that potentially shaped behavioural expression. Case studies based on types of school revealed detailed differences in context - regional, local and personal - that shaped students' engagement and their innovative behaviour in particular. The paper also reflects on teaching style, extracurricular opportunities for skills' development and student motivation to acquire an innovation skills set. The paper reflects on practical and policy implications of this work and identifies areas for further research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- COLLEGE students
COLLEGE teachers
CONCEPTUAL structures
CONFIDENCE
CREATIVE ability
DIFFUSION of innovations
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
FOCUS groups
HIGH school students
HIGH schools
INTERVIEWING
LEADERSHIP
LONGITUDINAL method
CASE studies
POPULATION geography
SELF-efficacy
STUDENT attitudes
SURVEYS
TEACHER attitudes
UNIVERSITIES & colleges
VOCATIONAL education
QUALITATIVE research
TEACHING methods
EDUCATIONAL outcomes
INDIVIDUAL development
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14623943
- Volume :
- 12
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Reflective Practice
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 63968142
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14623943.2011.601561