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Perception of Soft Skills in Textile Designers' Education

Strategic framework for European cooperation in education and training ("ET 2020"), as well as number of related documents, underlined soft skills importance in effectively dealing professional and everyday life challenges. Soft skills, complementing professional expertise, are only recently recognized as a curriculum inevitable part. The purpose of this study is to enhance understanding of students' perception and attitude to the soft skills and its impact to their future profession. For the research was designed questionnaire with set of 30 personal, social and methodological soft skills. Students of textile design were asked to rate importance for each listed skill for the success in employment and professional career, as well as to rate personal adopted skills level. As a control group, students of textile technology were used. Statistical analysis was made in SPSS 17, conducting methods of descriptive statistics and factor analyses. According to the survey, the most important soft skill is creativity, followed by responsibility, empathy and managerial skills. The obtained results will be used for the comparison with the employers' perception of important soft skills, as well as for the development of soft-skills-related pedagogical tools and digital credentials that will map learner's achievements.

soft skills ; education ; textile designers ; survey

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