Technical Skills Are Not Enough

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan W. Arenberg ◽  
Paul A. A. Lightsey
Keyword(s):  
Technical Skills

Masters of Craft

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard E. Ocejo
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Young Men ◽  
New Economy ◽  
Technical Skills ◽  
Manual Labor ◽  
Work Practices ◽  
Downward Mobility ◽  
Postindustrial City ◽  
New Form ◽  
Cultural Repertoires

In today's new economy—in which “good” jobs are typically knowledge or technology based—many well-educated and culturally savvy young men are instead choosing to pursue traditionally low-status manual-labor occupations as careers. This book looks at the renaissance of four such trades: bartending, distilling, barbering, and butchering. The book takes readers into the lives and workplaces of these people to examine how they are transforming these once-undesirable jobs into “cool” and highly specialized upscale occupational niches—and in the process complicating our notions about upward and downward mobility through work. It shows how they find meaning in these jobs by enacting a set of “cultural repertoires,” which include technical skills based on a renewed sense of craft and craftsmanship and an ability to understand and communicate that knowledge to others, resulting in a new form of elite taste-making. The book describes the paths people take to these jobs, how they learn their chosen trades, how they imbue their work practices with craftsmanship, and how they teach a sense of taste to their consumers. The book provides new insights into the stratification of taste, gentrification, and the evolving labor market in today's postindustrial city.

DESAIN PEMBELAJARAN UNTUK TRANSFORMASI SOSIAL (Studi Perbandingan Pemikiran Paulo Freire dan Ivan Illich tentang Pendidikan Pembebasan)

1970 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-128
Author(s):  
Muh. Hanif
Keyword(s):  
Social Transformation ◽  
Paulo Freire ◽  
Technical Skills ◽  
Stable System ◽  
Open Learning ◽  
Learning Network ◽  
Contemporary Education ◽  
Ivan Illich

Paulo Freire and Ivan Illich are prominent figures in contemporary education, who broke the stable system of education. Paulo Freire suggests to stop bank style education and to promote andragogy education, which views both teacher and students equally. Education should be actualized through facing problems and should be able to omit naïve and magic awareness replaced with critical and transformative awareness. Different from Freire, Illich offers to free the society from formal schools. Education should be run in an open learning network. Technical skills can be taught by drilling. In addition, social transformation will happen only if there are epimethean people that are minority in existence.

56. Proficiency at the end of practice predicts retention of a technical clinical skills

2007 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 59
Author(s):  
H. Carnahan ◽  
E. Hagemann ◽  
A. Dubrowski
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Clinical Skills ◽  
Clinical Skill ◽  
Technical Skills ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Retention Performance ◽  
Specific Criterion ◽  
Practice Trials ◽  
Practice Time ◽  
Criterion Time

A debate is emerging regarding the efficacy of proficiency based versus duration based training of technical skills. It is not clear whether the performance level attained at the end of practice (i.e., proficiency criteria), or the overall amount of practice performed during learning will best predict the retention of a technical clinical skill. The skill learned was the single-handed double square-knot. Forty two trainees learned the skill through video-based instruction and were divided into three groups (14 participants per group) each with a specific criterion time to tie the knot (10, 15, and 20 seconds). Practice continued until participants completed the knot within their criterion time. The total number of trials, and the overall practice time required to obtain each respective criterion were recorded during practice. Participants returned one-week later for a timed retention test consisting of one trial of the knot tying skill with no video instruction. A multiple regression analysis tested whether the amount of practice, the total practice time, or the criterion reached at the end of practice was the best predictor of the time taken to perform the skill during retention. This analysis showed that the number of practice trials was highly correlated with total practice time (r = .82, p = .01), therefore total practice time was withdrawn as a predictor variable from the subsequent analysis. The regression showed that the only significant predictor of retention performance was the criterion reached at the end of practice (p = .03). The number of practice trials was not found to significantly predict the retention performance (p = .87). The results support the notion that proficiency based training results in better retention of a technical clinical skill in comparison to duration based approaches. This provides evidence for the introduction of proficiency based educational approaches in technical skills curricula. Jowett N, LeBlanc V, Xeroulis G, MacRae H, Dubrowski A. Surgical skill acquisition with self-directed practice using computer-based video training. Am J Surg. 2007; 193(2):237-42. Gallagher AG, Ritter EM, Champion H, Higgins G, Fried MP, Moses G, Smith CD, Satava RM. Virtual reality simulation for the operating room: proficiency-based training as a paradigm shift in surgical skills training. Ann Surg. 2005; 241(2):364-72. Van Sickle KR, Ritter EM, McClusky DA, Lederman A, Baghai M, Gallagher AG, Smith CD. Attempted establishment of proficiency levels for laparoscopic performance on a national scale using simulation: the results from the 2004 SAGES Minimally Invasive Surgical Trainer-Virtual Reality (MIST-VR) learning center study. Surg Endosc. 2007; 21(1):5-10.

ATTITUDE OF LIBRARY PROFESSIONALS TOWARDS ADOPTION OF CLOUD COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY IN VTU AFFILIATED ENGINEERING COLLEGES LIBRARIES

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
C. T. Kantharaja
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Technical Skills ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Cloud Platform ◽  
Computing Technology ◽  
Management Software ◽  
Library Management ◽  
The Right ◽  
Library Professionals

Cloud computing technology has signicant role in academic libraries. Most of the library services are available on cloud platform and library software vendors developed their Library Management Software on cloud platform. It is the right time for library professionals to upgrade their technical skills to provide good services to the library stakeholders. This study shows the library services and facilities available on cloud. It is the right time to migrate to cloud

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