Keyword: skills

Learning to work in the creative and cultural sector: new spaces, pedagogies and expertise

Dr David Guile

The paper questions the link that policymakers assume exists between qualifications and access to employment in the creative and cultural (C&C) sector. It (i) identifies how labour market... Read more »

TOP KEYWORDS: employment, creativity, skills, education, knowledge, industry, culture, politics

The relationship between the constitution/construction of knowledge and identities, community

Gabrielle Ivinson

There is a great variety of contexts within society that continuously create, recreate and reproduce knowledge. The knowledge that is produced in society is enormously diverse as... Read more »

TOP KEYWORDS: Internet, skills, creativity, economics, knowledge, community

Learning, remembering and meta-cognitive/communication skills

Steven D. Brown

Memory is a key contemporary theme within the social and biomedical sciences. Treatments of memory range from discussions of individual capacities to recollect events accurately, through studies of... Read more »

TOP KEYWORDS: communication, memory, learning, biology, skills

The growing importance of generic skills

Francis Green

Although it is generally recognised that modern economies require the use of continually greater skills, the notion of skill is often translated to mean education. Thus, a more... Read more »

TOP KEYWORDS: skills, economics, work, education, technology

Developing expertise – moving beyond a focus on workplace competence, assessment and qualifications

Alan Brown

This paper intends to highlight key trends in the development of expertise in the workplace in a way that goes beyond the current obsessions of many people with... Read more »

TOP KEYWORDS: assessment, competence, knowledge, work, education, development, skills, Lifelong Learning