Teaching and learning
Making experience work: Generic skills through the eyes of displaced workers - Volume 1
- Item:
- 1352
- Title:
- Making experience work: Generic skills through the eyes of displaced workers - Volume 1
- Authors:
- Crina Virgona, Peter Waterhouse, Robyn Sefton, Jill Sanguinetti
- Publication date:
- 26 August 2003
- Type:
- Research report
- Themes:
- Teaching and learning > Generic skills > Assessing generic skills
- Teaching and learning > Generic skills > General
- Teaching and learning > Generic skills > Teaching and learning generic skills
- ISBN:
- 1 74096 178 1
This report is based on interviews with workers who have lost their jobs due to changes in the workplace and are thus 'displaced workers'. It investigates how generic skills are perceived and valued by these workers, where they acquired their generic skills and what the implications of this are for teachers and trainers in the workplace and in registered training organisations. The study finds that the workplace is the most important influence on the development of generic skills and therefore teachers and trainers in formal education settings have to create opportunities for skill development through experiential learning in workplaces. The report is published in two volumes. Volume 1 is the main report and volume 2 contains the appendices and is available in PDF format only.
