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

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Pedagogies on the edge: Researching complex practice in youth and adult community education
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November 2005

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Studies in Continuing Education

Jill Sanguinetti

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David Maunders

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 approach to assist us in exploring how ‘generic skills and attributes’ are fostered in the context of adult and community education and to theorise pedagogies of ACE in the light of the changed demographic of those who access ACE programs (especially disaffected young people and older unemployed men). A ‘Framework for ACE Pedagogy’ was one outcome of the research. In this paper we describe the five ‘elements’ which we found to constitute ‘The Teacher’ in ACE. The elements include: personal engagement with learners; self-reflection on one's teaching and one's own learning journey; improvisation and risk-taking; awareness of relations of power; and having patience and trust in the learning process.



'Generic Skills for Employability': Educational Colonisation or Educational Opportunity?

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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 decade with the demands of competency-based training packages and performative assessment. On the other hand, the generic skills agenda is strongly influenced by business and employer groups, and therefore needs to be carefully scrutinised. Many of the assumptions and implications of the current generic skills 'movement' have been challenged by critical educational commentators such as Peter Kearns (), Andrew Gonczi(2002), Cathy Down(2000,2001) and Paul Comyn(2002). In 2002 I was one of a team 1 at Workplace Learning Initiatives (WLI), a small private research and training organization in Melbourne, working on one of several NCVER-funded research projects which aimed to explore the nature and potential application of generic skills. Our project investigated the meaning of generic skills in relation to and through the perspectives and experiences of retrenched and otherwise displaced workers. In this paper we will firstly review some of the debates surrounding generic skills and make a brief analysis of the political and economic context. Secondly, we will describe (briefly) the methodology and outcomes of the WLI project. Finally, we will discuss the implications of those findings including those which challenge prevailing assumptions about 'generic skills', 'employability', and about 'transferability'. The findings point to the need for a renewed focus on pedagogy and the need for learners and workers to develop a metalanguage for the skills, qualities and attributes they have learned and accumulated through life.

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... 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. ...

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The Use of PBS SPMP i-GSA System: The Perception Towards Users' Attitudes and The Design of The System
'Generic Skills for Employability': Educational Colonisation or Educational Opportunity?
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... 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. ...

Pedagogies on the edge: Researching complex practice in youth and adult community education
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  • November 2005

Studies in Continuing Education