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Enhancing Soft Skills Development in Education Undergraduates

This paper presents strategies to develop soft skills in Bachelor of Education undergraduates, aiming to enhance their employability. It discusses techniques such as role play, group work, and field activities to embed soft skills in the curriculum.

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Enhancing Soft Skills Development in Education Undergraduates

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  1. Strategies to Develop Soft Skills in the Bachelor of Education Undergraduates. S.S.Dahanayake Senior Lecturer Dept. of Humanities Education, Faculty of Education, University of Colombo

  2. Background • Various International and local reports highlighted the necessity of having skills oriented graduates. • The issue of unemployed graduates It is necessary to enhance the employability of university graduates through the inculcation of soft skills in higher education institutions. The University curriculum needs to incorporate soft skills

  3. Cont; • On going research • The main focus of this paper is to identify strategies that can be used to develop the soft skills of the Bachelor of education undergraduates in the Faculty of Education • Embedded Model • Stand Alone Model • Combined Stand Alone and Embedded Model

  4. Conceptual Framework Embedded model(Approach of embedding the soft skills in theT.&L.activities across the curriculum)

  5. Evidence from Litrerature • America • Malaysia • Taiwan • South Africa

  6. Sample/ Participants • Hundred Undergraduates • Ten university lecturers from Faculty of Education University of Colombo for interviews.

  7. Findings • Majority of the lecturers were agreeable to the incorporation of soft skills in the curriculum through an embedded model. • However Majority of the lecturers’ views are that they need more time in their lectures in order to in cooperate soft skills • Changed the instructional system in the areas of : Learning outcomes, Syllabus content, Instructional system, Soft Skills and Assessment

  8. They agree that Role play, Group work, Presentation, Field work, Brainstorming, Effective questioning method, Case studies, Reflective journals are modes that can be incorporated into development of soft skills. • A variety of co-curriculum activities are offered : Uniform activities ,Sports activities, Cultural activities, Leadership activities, Debates etc. • Reflecting on School Experience

  9. Suggestions • Conduct awareness programmes • Training of teachers on how to teach and assess soft skills at all levels of education

  10. References • Curts D (2010) Defining, Assessing and Measuring Generic competencies Findlers University of South Australia • Fleischmann M.E.(2013) Soft Skills of excellent teachers in diverse South African schools in Western Cape. Faculty of Education at Stellenbosch University • Li-Tze Lee &Tien-Tse Lee (2011)Investigating Soft Skills for Success in the Workforce: perceptions of Elementary School TeachersInternational Review of Social Sciences and Humanities Vol.1, No,2 pp. 140-149 www.irssh.com • Singh, G.K.K and Singh ,G.K.S. 2008 Malaysian Graduates’ Employability Skills UNTAR E- Journal Vol 4, NO 1 January • World Bank Report (2005), Treasures of the Education System in Sri Lanka: Human Development Unit South Asia Region, Colombo • http;//www.p21.org/storage/documents/final/Are They Really Ready to Work? Employers’ Perspectives on the Basic Knowledge and Applied Skills of New Entrants to the 21st Century U.S. Workforce Conference Board 2006

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