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  • Are our Special Education Students Ready for Work? An Investigation of the Teaching of Job-related Social Skills in Northern Taiwan

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    Author(s)
    Chu, YA
    Zhang, LC
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    Zhang, Liang-Cheng
    Year published
    2015
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    Abstract
    This study is concerned with the current job preparation programmes for special education students in Taiwan. Two hundred and three randomly selected special education teachers in Northern Taiwan responded to a questionnaire about job-related social skills. The relationship between teachers’ demographic characteristics and their teaching of job-related social skills was examined. In general, teachers’ pedagogical practices were found to focus more on the basic job-related social skills (such as proper attire, hygiene, punctuality and attendance) than on the advanced job-related social skills (such as cooperation and emotion ...
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    This study is concerned with the current job preparation programmes for special education students in Taiwan. Two hundred and three randomly selected special education teachers in Northern Taiwan responded to a questionnaire about job-related social skills. The relationship between teachers’ demographic characteristics and their teaching of job-related social skills was examined. In general, teachers’ pedagogical practices were found to focus more on the basic job-related social skills (such as proper attire, hygiene, punctuality and attendance) than on the advanced job-related social skills (such as cooperation and emotion management). Interestingly, teachers with a special education degree tended to nurture both dimensions of job-related social skills. Additionally, teacher experience was found to be a key contributor to the teaching of job-related social skills, with less experienced teachers more likely to downplay the teaching of such skills.
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    Journal Title
    International Journal of Disability, Development and Education
    Volume
    62
    Issue
    6
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/1034912X.2015.1077936
    Copyright Statement
    © 2015 Taylor & Francis (Routledge). This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Disability, Development and Education on 21 Aug 2015, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1034912X.2015.1077936
    Subject
    Education systems
    Specialist studies in education
    Specialist studies in education not elsewhere classified
    Social work
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/125077
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