Jill Sanguinetti's research while affiliated with Victoria University Melbourne and other places

Publications (3)

Article
This research arose from our involvements in adults and community education, adult literacy, youth issues, and in researching the new movement in Australia for the inclusion of ‘generic skills’ in education and training curriculum. We recruited twenty-two practitioners in Adult and Community Education (ACE) in a participatory action research approa...
Article
Introduction Over the last two years, the National Centre for Vocational Education and Research (NCVER) has focused many research projects on the notion of 'generic skills' and how these can be integrated into vocational education provision. The trend to generic skills promises a new approach for educators and trainers who have struggled for a deca...

Citations

... According to Hall (2008), human capital management is a sub-set to the human resource management. Sanguinetti (2004) argued that generic skills should be emphasized as it is a part of the development of human capital besides the mastery of knowledge and other skills. ...
... This support can be further seen in Casey et al.'s (2006) work, with specific guidelines for values and beliefs considered an essential ingredient. Despite the diversity of LNS provision in Australian TAFE institutions, which makes generalised assessments of how they function and what they achieve difficult (Balatti et al., 2006), many reportedly lead to growth in student self-confidence and self-esteem (Sanguinetti et al., 2005). This growth occurred despite a shift in outcome reporting from self-confidence building origins to more economic rationalist purposes in which literacy and numeracy proficiency becomes a distinct measure of success. ...