Soft Skills Research in Higher Education: Top 100 Scopus-Indexed Publications

Q1 Social Sciences
Olesia V. Rumiantseva
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Introduction. At present, employers’ standards for university graduates are scrutinized, obviously stepping up requirements for soft skills. The issue of modernization of university curricula or development of new ones that include soft skills development in the framework of university education is relevant. The importance of the problem makes us turn to the experiences of foreign universities. This article aims to identify the main subject areas, where much attention is paid to the issues of soft skills, as well as directions of research on students’ soft skills development between 2010 and 2020 in the framework of higher education. Materials and Methods. ИThe study was conducted in two phases. During the first phase, we used a search strategy to identify the main subject areas of research on the topic of soft skills development in the period from 2010 to 2020. At the second phase, a study of one hundred most cited articles indexed in the Scopus database on the topic of soft skills in education was carried out. The selection was based on the inclusion and non-inclusion criteria. We used a method of content analysis. The selected articles were divided into several clusters demonstrating the research focus. Results. The analysis of foreign studies provided information on the subject fields that essentially focus on forming soft skills. The main subject areas, where the largest number of studies on soft skills published from 2010 to 2020 were recorded, embrace social sciences, IT, engineering, business and accounting. The areas of research on students’ soft skills in the period between 2010 and 2020 were general pedagogical issues, issues of increasing employability, and different areas of education. Discussion and Conclusion. A selection of the worldʼs best practices described in the leading articles on the formation of soft skills in education enriches the collection of methodological techniques of teachers in various specialized disciplines. The materials of the article can be useful for methodologists and teachers of professional education institutions, engaged in the formation and development of a new type of curricula, taking into account the needs of the modern labor market, and persons interested in the problems of higher education.
高等教育软技能研究:前100名scopus索引出版物
介绍。目前,用人单位对大学毕业生的标准正在严格审查,对软技能的要求明显提高。大学课程现代化或在大学教育框架内开发包括软技能发展的新课程的问题是相关的。这个问题的重要性使我们转向国外大学的经验。本文旨在确定软技能问题备受关注的主要学科领域,以及2010 - 2020年高等教育框架下学生软技能发展的研究方向。材料与方法。ИThe研究分两个阶段进行。在第一阶段,我们使用搜索策略来确定2010 - 2020年软技能发展主题的主要研究领域。第二阶段,对Scopus数据库收录的100篇被引次数最多的教育软技能论文进行研究。选择是基于纳入和非纳入标准。我们采用了内容分析的方法。所选文章被分成若干组来展示研究重点。对国外研究的分析提供了主要侧重于形成软技能的学科领域的信息。2010年至2020年发表的软技能研究数量最多的主要学科领域包括社会科学、IT、工程、商业和会计。2010年至2020年期间,学生软技能的研究领域包括一般教学问题、提高就业能力问题和不同的教育领域。讨论与结论。在教育软技能形成的主要文章中描述的世界最佳实践的选择丰富了不同专业学科教师的方法论技术集合。本文的材料对从事新型课程的形成和发展、考虑到现代劳动力市场的需要以及对高等教育问题感兴趣的人的方法学家和专业教育机构的教师很有用。
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Integration of Education
Integration of Education Social Sciences-Education
CiteScore
1.30
自引率
0.00%
发文量
37
审稿时长
16 weeks
期刊介绍: The journal was established by the resolution of the Russian Federation State Committee on Higher Education, the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, the State Assembly and Government of Republic of Mordovia of 12 July 1995. Integration of Education publishes original researches in the field of integration of education. The names and content of the Journal’s sections correspond to the fields of science and groups of specialties of scientific workers in accordance with the Nomenclature of Scientific Specialties in which academic degrees are awarded: 19.00.00 PSYCHOLOGY 13.00.00 PEDAGOGY 22.00.00 SOCIOLOGY
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