Identifying and Describing the Skills Required by Work
There is no generally accepted statement of the skills required to
succeed at a career in the United States. The Secretary's Commission on
Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) set out to formulate a new framework
for workplace skills based on three components: The functional skills
that describe what people actually do at work; the enabling skills, that
is, the specific knowledge and procedures developed through the traditional
teaching and learning activities of schools; and the scenario, a
communication device to demonstrate the way in which work integrates
these skills into a productive outcome.
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