TOWARDS AN INCLUSIVE SKILLS TYPOLOGY

Paraskevas Lintzeris, Thanassis Karalis

Abstract


The article seeks to contribute to the clarification and deeper understanding of certain key skills concepts. In this context, it presents and analyzes both the usefulness and the limitations and difficulties of constructing a modern and comprehensive skills classification and proposes a categorization of skills that are considered critical for the performance of job roles and the effective execution of work tasks. The proposed skill typology broken down into 7 categories, 9 sub-categories and 68 individual knowledge and skills was based on an overview and analysis of 18 important existing skill typologies. The proposed typology covers fundamental, general, professional, social skills, as well as certain work-related attitudes and values. It also includes a reference to digital skills.

 

Article visualizations:

Hit counter

DOI

Keywords


skill policies, skills typology, general / generic skills, social skills, digital skills

Full Text:

PDF

References


Bacigalupo, Μ., Kampylis, P., Punie, Y. & Van den Brande, G. (2016). EntreComp: The Entrepreneurship Competence Framework. JRC Science for Policy Report. Luxembourg: Publication Office of the European Union.

Bakhshi, H., Downing, J., Osborne, M. and Schneider, P. (2017). The Future of Skills: Employment in 2030. London: Pearson and Nesta.

Brewer, L. (2013). Enhancing youth employability: What? Why? and How? Guide to core work skills. International Labour Office, Skills and Employability Department. Geneva: ILO.

Carretero, S.; Vuorikari, R. and Punie, Y. (2017). DigComp 2.1: The Digital Competence Framework for Citizens with eight proficiency levels and examples of use, EUR 28558 EN, doi:10.2760/38842.

Cedefop (2008). The shift to learning outcomes. Conceptual, political and practical developments in Europe. Luxemburg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities.

Cedefop (2015). Skills, qualifications and jobs in the EU: The making of a perfect match? Evidence from Cedefop’s European skills and jobs survey, Cedefop reference series, 103, http://dx.doi.org/10.2801/606129. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union.

Cedefop (2018). Insights into skill shortages and skill mismatch: learning from Cedefop’s European skills and jobs survey. Cedefop reference series, 106, http://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2801/645011. Luxembourg: Publications Office.

Common Employability Skills (2015). The National Network of Business and Industry Associations. Retrieved from https://www.necessaryskillsnow.org/employability-skills.php.

Council of the European Parliament (2008). Recommendation of the European Parliament and the Council of 23 April 2008 on the establishment of the European Qualification Framework for lifelong learning, (2008/C 111/01). Retrieved from https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32008H0506(01)&from=EN.

Council of the European Union (2017). Council recommendation of 22 May 2017 on the European Qualifications Framework for lifelong learning and repealing the recommendation of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2008 on the establishment of the European Qualifications Framework for lifelong learning. Retrieved from https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EL/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32017H0615(01)&from=EN.

Council of the European Union (2018). Council Recommendation of 22 May 2018 on key competences for lifelong learning. Retrieved from https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32018H0604(01)&from=EN.

Employability Skills Framework (n.d.). Perkins Collaborative Resource Network, USA, US Department of Education. Retrieved from https://cte.ed.gov/initiatives/employability-skills-framework.

Eurofound (2016). What do Europeans do at work? A task-based analysis: European Jobs Monitor 2016, Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union.

European Commission (2011). Transferability of Skills across Economic Sectors: Role and Importance for Employment at European Level. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union.

European Commission (2012). Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions Rethinking Education: Investing in skills for better socio-economic outcomes. Strasbourg, COM (2012) 669 final.

European Commission (2016). Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, The Council, The European Economic and Social Committee of the Regions – A New Skills Agenda for Europe: Working together to strengthen human capital, employability and competitiveness, COM (2016) 381/2.

European Commission (2019) European Skills, Competencies, Qualifications and Occupations – ESCO Handbook. Retrieved from https://ec.europa.eu/esco/portal/document/en/0a89839c-098d-4e34-846c-54cbd5684d24.

European Political Strategy Centre, European Commission (2016). The future of work. Skills and resilience for a world of change, EPSC Strategic Notes, No. 13. https://ec.europa.eu/epsc/sites/epsc/files/strategic_note_issue_13.pdf.

European Union (2015). Digital Competence – Europass. Retrieved from https://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/resources/digital-competences.

Guerra, N., Modecki, K. & Cunningham, W. (2014). Developing Social-Emotional Skills for the Labor Market. The PRACTICE Model. World Bank Group, Policy Research Working Paper. Retrieved from http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/970131468326213915/ Developing-social-emotional-skills-for-the-labor-market-the-PRACTICE-model.

Illeris, K. (2007). How we learn. Learning and non-learning in school and beyond. London: Routledge.

Jarvis, P. (2006) Towards a comprehensive theory of human learning. London & New York: Routledge.

OECD (2015). Skills for Social Progress: The Power of Social and Emotional Skills, OECD Skills Studies. http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789264226159-en. Paris: OECD.

OECD (2019). Future of Education and Skills 2030. OECD Learning Compass 2030. A Series of Concept Notes. Retrieved from https://www.oecd.org/education/2030-project/teaching-and-learning/learning/learning/compass-2030/OECD_Learning_Compass_2030_Concept_Note_Series.pdf.

Partnership for 21st Century Skills (2008). 21st Century Skills, Education & Competitiveness: A Resource and Policy Guide. Retrieved from http://www.p21.org/storage/documents /21st_century_skills_education_and_competitiveness_guide.pdf.

Winch, C. (2011). Skill – A concept manufactured in England? in M. Brockmann, L. Clarke and C. Winch Knowledge, Skills and Competence in the European Labour Market. What’s in a vocational qualification? London & New York: Routledge.

World Bank (2018). Spotlight 3: The multidimensionality of skills. In World Development Report 2018: Learning to Realize Education’s Promise, pp.102-104. Washington: International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank.

World Economic Forum (2016a). New Vision for Education: Unlocking the Potential of Technology (prepared in collaboration with Boston Consulting Group), Switzerland: World Economic Forum.

World Economic Forum (2016b). The Future of Jobs: Employment, Skills and Workforce Strategy for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Switzerland: World Economic Forum.




DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.46827/ejsss.v0i0.771

Copyright (c) 2020 Paraskevas Lintzeris, Thanassis Karalis

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

The research works published in this journal are free to be accessed. They can be shared (copied and redistributed in any medium or format) and\or adapted (remixed, transformed, and built upon the material for any purpose, commercially and\or not commercially) under the following terms: attribution (appropriate credit must be given indicating original authors, research work name and publication name mentioning if changes were made) and without adding additional restrictions (without restricting others from doing anything the actual license permits). Authors retain the full copyright of their published research works and cannot revoke these freedoms as long as the license terms are followed.

Copyright © 2016 - 2023. European Journal Of Social Sciences Studies (ISSN 2501-8590) is a registered trademark of Open Access Publishing Group. All rights reserved.

This journal is a serial publication uniquely identified by an International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) serial number certificate issued by Romanian National Library. All the research works are uniquely identified by a CrossRef DOI digital object identifier supplied by indexing and repository platforms. All the research works published on this journal are meeting the Open Access Publishing requirements and standards formulated by Budapest Open Access Initiative (2002), the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing (2003) and  Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities (2003) and can be freely accessed, shared, modified, distributed and used in educational, commercial and non-commercial purposes under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Copyrights of the published research works are retained by authors.