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Smart skills and education in a future economy

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Kutrzeba F.

e-mentor

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2018

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issue 1 (73)

37-43

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Regardless of whether the adopted role of education is to prepare people for pursuing employment or building general values, it will include the identification and development of skills and competences as well as professional and personal attributes. Critical thinking, ingenuity and complex cognitive-social skills are precisely those areas in which people continue to outdo intelligent machines. The purpose of this article is to review the skills and competences that will be desirable in the future in relation to recent technological changes. They are preceded by selected macroeconomic data to illustrate the situation of higher education with an emphasis on Poland, where, despite positive returns on investment in education (the highest among OECD countries), since 2005 a systematic fall in demand for higher education has been observed. The empirical part presents the results of a pilot study aimed at determining the desired future skills and professional attributes of Polish employers. The basic data was collected manually using a quantitative study during three sessions at two different job fairs in Gdańsk in March 2017. According to the surveyed respondents (n = 55), professional experience, proficiency in the use of new media and formal education were indicated as the least important features, while learning and diligence – as the key competences for the future economy. In addition, the studies have shown the differences in the perception of these abilities and competences depending on the employer’s position on the market, the number of employees and the internal policies of the companies.

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Smart skills and education in a future economy

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Kutrzeba F.

e-mentor

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2018

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issue 2 (74)

37-43

EN

Regardless of whether the adopted role of education is to prepare people for pursuing employment or building general values, it will include the identification and development of skills and competences as well as professional and personal attributes. Critical thinking, ingenuity and complex cognitive-social skills are precisely those areas in which people continue to outdo intelligent machines. The purpose of this article is to review the skills and competences that will be desirable in the future in relation to recent technological changes. They are preceded by selected macroeconomic data to illustrate the situation of higher education with an emphasis on Poland, where, despite positive returns on investment in education (the highest among OECD countries), since 2005 a systematic fall in demand for higher education has been observed. The empirical part presents the results of a pilot study aimed at determining the desired future skills and professional attributes of Polish employers. The basic data was collected manually using a quantitative study during three sessions at two different job fairs in Gdańsk in March 2017. According to the surveyed respondents (n = 55), professional experience, proficiency in the use of new media and formal education were indicated as the least important features, while learning and diligence – as the key competences for the future economy. In addition, the studies have shown the differences in the perception of these abilities and competences depending on the employer’s position on the market, the number of employees and the internal policies of the companies.

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Etyka troski a gospodarka przyszłości

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Łapniewska Z.

Praktyka Teoretyczna

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2017

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vol. 24

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issue 2

101-122

EN

For decades, economic theories have been changing due to historical events and economic turbulences, yet each time they have had an actual impact on the lives of societies. Today, when neo-liberal theories are no longer appreciated, the divide between the richest and the poorest members of society is growing almost exponentially, and technological development drastically changes working conditions, new visions of a future economy are needed – ones in which everyone can find their place and live a life worth living. My suggestion is that this economy should be based on the ethics of care – a line of argument presented in this article. It opens with an outline of the ongoing economic changes. There then follows an explanation of the importance of ethics of care, as well as of the care necessary for the development and reproduction of societies, as the main framework for further consideration of job guarantee and unconditional basic income, to which the subsequent sections of the article are devoted. The analysis of these theories from a feminist perspective will also be enriched with proposals for additional solutions that go beyond the current paradigm of growth.

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Przez dziesięciolecia teorie ekonomiczne zmieniały się pod wpływem wydarzeń historycznych oraz turbulencji gospodarczych, za każdym razem miały one jednak konkretne przełożenie na życie społeczeństw. Dziś, gdy teorie neoliberalne przestają cieszyć się uznaniem, rozwarstwienie pomiędzy najbogatszymi i najuboższymi postępuje prawie geometrycznie, a rozwój technologii sprawia, że drastycznie zmieniają się warunki pracy, potrzebne są nowe wizje gospodarki przyszłości, w której każdy mógłby znaleźć swoje miejsce i godnie żyć. Moja propozycja wiąże się z oparciem gospodarki na etyce troski, który to argument prezentuję w niniejszym artykule. W jego wstępie przyglądam się zachodzącym zmianom gospodarczym. Następnie przybliżam znaczenie etyki troski, a także opieki niezbędnej do rozwoju i reprodukowania się społeczeństw jako głównych ram przyjętych w dalszych rozważaniach nad gwarancją zatrudnienia oraz bezwarunkowym dochodem podstawowym, którym poświęcone są kolejne części artykułu. Analizy tych teorii, przeprowadzone z feministycznego punktu widzenia, wzbogacone zostaną także o propozycje dodatkowych rozwiązań, które wychodzą poza obowiązujący dziś paradygmat wzrostu.

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