Teaching “soft skills” to university students in China: the feasibility of an Australian approach

Yan, Li; Yang, Yinghong; Lui, Siu Man; Whiteside, Mary; Tsey, Komla

doi:10.1080/03055698.2018.1446328

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“…Hard capacities comprise teachable skills, acquired through means of self-study, work experience, education, or training (Yan et al, 2018). These skills are industry-specific and vary from job to job.…”

Section: The Importance Of Developing Soft Skillsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Since 2000, the authors of this article have applied FWB in a wide variety of contexts. These include health promotion among school children (Tsey et al, 2005), to engage young Aboriginal men to participate in learning and employment (Whiteside et al, 2016), to promote university student wellbeing in Australia and Papua New Guinea (Kitau et al, 2016;Whiteside et al, 2016), in workforce training in Australia (McEwan et al, 2010;Whiteside et al, 2006) and soft skills training for university students in China (Yan et al, 2018). This record of the universal application and adaptability of the FWB soft skills learning to diverse issues and contexts influenced the decision by the Timorese Ministry of Health (MoH) to invite the Australian FWB researchers to conduct the exploratory study.…”

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“…The Aboriginal Australian Family Wellbeing Program (FWB) is well documented as a program designed to empower participants to take greater responsibility and control of their social and emotional well-being (McEwan, Tsey, McCalman, & Travers, 2010;Tsey et al, 2005;Whiteside, Tsey, Cadet-James, & McCalman, 2014). Its success is enhanced by the utilization of a participatory social cognitive learning approach that advances deep, transformative, and long-lasting impacts (Bandura, 2011;McCalman, Bainbridge, Brown, Tsey, & Clarke, 2018;Onnis, Klieve, & Tsey, 2018;Tsey et al, 2005;Whiteside et al, 2014;Yan, Yinghong, Lui, Whiteside, & Tsey, 2018). The delivery of the FWB in Timor-Leste provided an opportunity to explore the feasibility of FWB as a program for the development of soft skills for managers and leaders.…”

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Developing Soft Skills: Exploring the Feasibility of an Australian Well-Being Program for Health Managers and Leaders in Timor-Leste

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The article aims to describe the Family Wellbeing Program (FWB), a program that sets out to facilitate the enhancement of soft skills and to explore the relevance and acceptability of the FWB in the context of health managers and leaders in Timor-Leste. This article presents the fundamental principles of the FWB approach to facilitating soft skills in the context of trauma-informed training for managers and leaders. It describes how a participatory social learning approach advances deep, transformative, and long-lasting impacts. An exploratory mixed-methods design was adopted. Qualitative data were gathered from workshop participants through an evaluation form with open-ended questions allowing participants to provide comments on the program and how it could be enhanced. In addition, attendees participated in an online survey, which sought to capture data relating to demographics, soft skills for managers/leaders, personal well-being, and program satisfaction. Overall, the results show that the FWB program is both relevant and acceptable. The findings indicate that participants' understanding of concepts of management and well-being, particularly as it is applied to the workplace, was improved. This outcome is important because it highlights how the FWB program can contribute to the development of more accomplished managers and leaders in the future. The results of this exploratory study will be useful in informing future management and leadership training for the Timorese health workforce.

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“…Theoretically, learning entrepreneurship that is well managed indeed gives a very positive effect for the students, especially in the development of their soft skill competencies (34). Inversely, learning entrepreneurship which is not well managed leads tendency of students' being bored and not interested in learning.…”

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Designing of Technopreneurship Scientific Learning Framework in Vocational-based Higher Education in Indonesia

Hidayat¹,

Herawati²,

Syahmaidi³

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The complexity of problems at work and high working demands require students to develop multiple skills. One of the alternatives for encountering those conditions is through the process of Entrepreneurship activities or training, especially in vocational-based higher education and other public higher education. This paper aims to present designing process of technopreneurship scientific learning framework in vocational-based higher education. The research used Four D Model (4-D model) which followed stages of 1) Define, 2) Design, 3) Develop, and 4) Disseminate. While in this preliminary research, the stages were conducted only up to the design phase. The framework of technopreneurship scientific learning model resulted consists of, 1) identified problems, needs analysis and learning analysis; 2) scientific technopreneurship cooperative approach; 3) design of the scientific technopreneurship business plan; 4) product (prototype of goods and/or services), and 5) work evaluation. The results elaborate that thetechnopreneurship scientific learning model is as an alternative to producing well-prepared graduates for survival in the society by applying the entrepreneurship skills-based technology.

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“…In one of the universities of China, 29 second-year students were trained on a specially-organized program for the development of soft skills. The program was taken from the work experience of the University of Australia (Yan et al, 2018).…”

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FORMING SOFT SKILLS OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS BY MEANS OF ACADEMIC ROLE-PLAYING GAMES AT FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSES.doc

Tsalikova¹,

Пахотина²

2019

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The article contains theoretical grounds and experimental verification of using academic role-playing games at classes of Foreign Language in order to form soft skills of students, majoring in non-philological subjects. The purpose of the article is to analyze the effectiveness of using this form of work at university classes for the formation of soft skills of students and to monitor the correlation between these skills. The methodological basis of the study was the communicative and competence-based approaches in teaching foreign languages. Research methods include questioning, observation, expert assessment and testing. The obtained data were subjected to statistical analysis using Kolmogorov-Smirnov’s test, Pearson’s χ² test and Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient. Academic role-playing games have shown their effectiveness as a means of forming soft skills of students, majoring in non-philological subjects, in case of following such fundamental principles as: using the language as an integral system but not as a set of grammatical and lexical phenomena; using language as a means of communication, and, consequently, a teacher`s making educational materials and tasks, focused on the content of communication, but not on the formal characteristics; creating practice-oriented situations in the classroom that train social skills, but not just subject knowledge and skills. The article presents a description of training materials, tasks, methods and forms of work for the formation of students’ soft skills.

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Teaching “soft skills” to university students in China: the feasibility of an Australian approach

Cited by 53 publications

References 17 publications

Developing Soft Skills: Exploring the Feasibility of an Australian Well-Being Program for Health Managers and Leaders in Timor-Leste

Developing Soft Skills: Exploring the Feasibility of an Australian Well-Being Program for Health Managers and Leaders in Timor-Leste

Designing of Technopreneurship Scientific Learning Framework in Vocational-based Higher Education in Indonesia

FORMING SOFT SKILLS OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS BY MEANS OF ACADEMIC ROLE-PLAYING GAMES AT FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSES.doc

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