Archive | 2019
Graduate Employability (GE) Paradigm Shift:Towards Greater Socio-emotional and Eco-technological Relationalities of Graduates’ Futures
Abstract
Whereas a substantial scope of global literature contributes to the debates surrounding social, emotional, ecological and technological challenges of work and graduate employability (GE), the dominant GE paradigm still remains at the level of enhancing graduates’ skills, competencies and attributes. In this chapter, I propose an extension of this paradigm to integrate three meta-layers of ‘relationality’: GE as relational recruitability, GE as critical socio-emotional relationality and GE as eco-technological relationality. Such an integrated paradigm would be implemented via dialogic pedagogy, acknowledging the complexities of employment choices and decision-making. It could support graduates to understand and grapple with uncertain, changeable and complex job futures and issues surrounding technological advancement, ecological crises, emotional selves and social inequalities. Further work and collaborations among colleagues and policy makers are needed to theorise, develop, implement and evaluate the proposed paradigm in both national and international contexts.