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Teaching and Learning Employability Skills in Career and Technical Education

Teaching and Learning Employability Skills in Career and Technical Education Industry, Educator, and Student Perspectives

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Teaching and Learning Employability Skills in Career and Technical Education

Industry, Educator, and Student Perspectives

Will Tyson

Education / Counseling / Career Development

This book examines how industry-desired employability skills—or “soft skills”—are taught and learned in high school career and technical education (CTE) engineering and engineering technology programs. Identifying, recruiting, and keeping workers with strong personal and interpersonal skills is a constant challenge for STEM employers who need to hire young workers to replace an aging technical workforce. To answer the call, teachers interviewed explained that they maintain regimented daily classroom routines that include individual and small group hands-on activities and projects. In turn, their students explain learning personal responsibility, work ethic, teamwork, leadership, conflict management, and social skills in the classroom. Narratives from the workforce and classroom interweave to put employability skills frameworks into action.

Will Tyson is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of South Florida, USA. His research examines interpersonal and structural influences on science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) educational and career pathways out of high schools, community colleges, and four-year universities. He specializes in mixed methods research.


Publication Date: 13 October 2020
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-13: 9783030587437
Format: Hardback
Page Count: 171

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