Reconsidering Graduate Employability: The 'graduate identity' approach
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- 1 July 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Quality in Higher Education
- Vol. 7 (2) , 111-119
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13538320120060006
Abstract
This paper attempts to elaborate a cogent alternative to the skills agenda as an approach to graduate employability. This alternative is based on two things: first, a conceptual and theoretical analysis of the nature of human behaviour; and second, the claim that situated behaviour can only be properly understood by interpreting activity as performance-of-a-kind. Such interpretation depends upon there being a set of social practices and a set of identities appropriate to the social situation. This analysis of employability leads to suggestions for undergraduate curriculum enhancement.Keywords
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