Evidence-informed pedagogy and the enhancement of student employability

Yorke, Mantz; Knight, Peter

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“…The key concern is not that universities should not be developing employable graduates or have placement relationships with wider stakeholders, indeed there is a tradition of this; it is that there has been a shift in the terms of power, role and responsibilities in relationships between the State, employers, universities, students, and children and young people, in the production of 'human capital' (Yorke & Knight, 2007). In this prevailing regime who is asking the children and young people what they think a good professional is?…”

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Engaging with childhood: Student placements and the employability agenda

Reid

2015

Childhood

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Employability is an organising narrative within the global, neoliberal economic discourse, with relevance across different educational contexts. Most attention is paid to attaining the knowledge and skills relevant to gain employment and competitive advantage. This is particularly concerning in university programmes that develop professionals who work with children.Placements are a common approach to embedding employability within university curricula. This article explores student placements in primary school settings in the north of England. Analysis considers students' engagement with their own learning and with the children who are essential to that learning, who may be marginalised as a feature of it.Keywords: Childhood, Employability, Higher Education, Placements.Placement, the opportunity to learn alongside children and young people in their homes, schools, nurseries/kindergartens, and other settings, is a long-standing feature of university vocational education programmes. More recently the neoliberal 'employability' discourse has come to be a significant organising feature of university education (Tomlinson, 2012) and an aspect of global economic relations (Hill, 2002;Olssen and Peters, 2005). Consequently, increasing numbers of university programmes offer students a placement. Significantly, the employability discourse is focussed on the needs of the market and ignores wider political and moral concerns, including children and young people's needs, in the socially mediated relationship between politics, power and people's experience of the employability agenda (Reid, 2016).

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Engaging with childhood: Student placements and the employability agenda

Reid

2015

Childhood

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“…A four-forced choice response option was used (strongly agree, tend to agree, tend to disagree, strongly disagree). These were the same options used by Yorke and Knight (2007). As the Cronbach Alpha for self-efficacy in-HE was lower than the recommended threshold, it was discontinued from subsequent analysis (Table 3), with self-efficacy in the wider world (6-items) only being reported.…”

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“…Self-efficacy: Self-efficacy was measured using the Yorke and Knight (2007) two-component measure -self-efficacy questionnaire (SEQ). These authors measured self-efficacy using 12 items divided into: self-efficacy in-HE (6 items) and self-efficacy in the wider-world (6 items).…”

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Multitasking, but for what benefit? The dilemma facing Nigerian university students regarding part-time working

Gbadamosi

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Obalola

2015

Journal of Education and Work

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Students working part-time while studying for a full-time university degree are commonplace in many Western countries. This paper however, examines the historically uncommon parttime working activities and career aspirations among Nigerian university students. In particular, how working is perceived to contribute to developing employability skills, and whether it is influenced by their self-efficacy. Survey data from 324 questionnaires was collected from a federal university, although the data analysis used a mixed-method. The findings indicate that despite low levels of part-time working generally among students, older, more experienced, higher level and female students, place a premium on the skills that part-time work can develop. Moreover, self-efficacy and being female, is a significant predictor in understanding part-time work and career aspirations. This study offers originality by focusing on students' part-time work, the value working provides, and its link with career aspirations, within a relatively unexplored context of Nigeria.

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“…The graduate employability is a comprehensive ability to improve graduate future career development level (Finch et al, 2013), including a series of skills, knowledge and personality characteristics (Yorke & Knight, 2007). As a kind of individual ability, the structure of graduate employability includes personal basic social attribute, personal attitude, basic communication skills, teamwork skills (McQuaid & Lindsay, 2005).…”

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“…The Chinese "National Long-term Education Reform and Development plan (2010-2020) " pointed out that Chinese university students' ability to adapt to society and employment was not strong, there are a lot of universities students had low occupation identity and the lack of ability to occupational planning, the vocational target was not clear (Wang, 2014).How to enhance the graduate employability has become an urgent problem to be solved for Chinese teachingoriented higher education institutions. The development and promotion of graduate employability is closely related to the "teaching" and "learning" activities in universities, and is the embodiment of the comprehensive effects of various links in teaching (Yorke & Knight, 2007). The formation of graduate employability is not only closely related to the training mode of universities, but also closely related to the students' participation experience from extracurricular activities and outside university.…”

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Graduate Employability: The Perspective of Social Network Learning

Chen

2017

EURASIA J MATH SCI T

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This study provides a conceptual framework for understanding how the graduate acquire employability through the social network in the Chinese context, using insights from the social network theory. This paper builds a conceptual model of the relationship among social network, social network learning and the graduate employability, and uses structural equation analysis method to conduct an empirical test on the theoretical hypothesis, based on a sample of 1468 fresh graduates of business discipline from the local university in Zhejiang province of China. The findings suggested that social network is one of the important platforms for graduate to acquire employability in China, the scale of social network, social network heterogeneity and the strength of the relationship have positive effects on the formation of graduate employability. The acquisition mode of employability based on the social network can be divided into imitation learning, communication learning, accepting guidance, these three kinds of learning mode have positive effects on the formation of graduate employability, and play a mediating role in the relationship between social networks and graduate employability. University graduate should pay attention to the shaping of learning behavior based on social network to improve their employability in China.

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Evidence-informed pedagogy and the enhancement of student employability

Cited by 116 publications

References 5 publications

Engaging with childhood: Student placements and the employability agenda

Engaging with childhood: Student placements and the employability agenda

Multitasking, but for what benefit? The dilemma facing Nigerian university students regarding part-time working

Graduate Employability: The Perspective of Social Network Learning

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