In this research article, Ross J. Benbow and Matthew T. Hora explore the employability narrative, a view that focuses on whether colleges and universities provide students with the skills they need to be productively employed after graduation. Using sociocultural theory to problematize this narrative and qualitative methods to fore-ground the experiences of postsecondary educators and employers, the authors investigate conceptions of essential workplace skills in biotechnology and manufacturing fields. Their results show that though work ethic, technical knowledge, and technical ability represent core competencies valued across these communities, considerable variation exists in how members of different disciplinary and occupational subgroups value and conceptualize important skills. They found that respondents' conceptions of skills were also strongly tied to geography and organizational culture, among other contextual factors. With these results in mind, the authors conclude that skills are best viewed ...

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重新考虑大学生的就业能力：对教育者和雇主的工作技能概念的文化分析

在这篇研究文章中，罗斯·本博（Ross J. Benbow）和马修·霍拉（Matthew T. Hora）探索了就业能力的叙述，该观点侧重于大学和学院是否为学生提供毕业后需要的有效就业技能。作者使用社会文化理论对这种叙事和定性方法提出质疑，以预见大专教育者和雇主的经验，作者研究了生物技术和制造业领域基本工作技能的概念。他们的结果表明，尽管职业道德，技术知识和技术能力代表了这些社区所重视的核心能力，但不同学科和职业小组成员对重要技能的重视和概念化方式却存在很大差异。他们发现受访者 技能概念还与地理和组织文化以及其他背景因素密切相关。考虑到这些结果，作者得出的结论是，最好地看待技能...