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- Games to help those with an intellectual
disabilities become game to work - Greg Carey
Flinders University 23/11/2006
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WORK IS KEY, NOT A DEGREE Chris Robinson (DECS
CEO) Front page Advertiser 4/11/2006
40 of South Australian students who left school
in 2005 were not in full time employment or
further study by May Dusseldorp Skills Forum,
2006 Front Page Advertiser 11/11/2006
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- What is needed for those with an intellectual
disability to be game2WORK ?
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- skills can be more easily taught in the workplace
- other factors may be much more important in
preparing new employees for a successful
transition into the workplace - (Black Langone, 1997 Elksnin, 1993 Kright,
1999 Wehmeyer, Agran, Hughes, 1998 Worth,
2003)
non-cognitive factors may be more important than
the cognitive aspects traditionally addressed by
the education system
(Cherniss, 2000 Greenspan Granfield,
1992 ).
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Schools develop social skills programs
explicitly teach knowledge and skills
- HOWEVER
- the skills acquired may not be generalised by the
learner, or they may quickly become obsolete and
redundant (Daniel, Schwier, McCalla, 2003).
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- Social Awareness teaching aims to help learner
gain - tacit knowledge drawn from experience
Programs which aims to develop tacit knowledge
are less likely to become obsolete and redundant
(Daniel et al., 2003 Dourish Bellotti, 1992,
Solenkemp, 1999)
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Workplace Social Capital (Daniel et al., 2003)
- Networks of strong personal relationships that
develop - trust,
- cooperation and
- collective action (Jacobs, 1965)
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In the workplace this means
- information exchange,
- knowledge sharing, and
- knowledge construction
- (Luke, 2003)
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- Workplace Social Capital - 3 types of
relationship building - Bonding - establishing relationships with people
who have similar roles. - Bridging - establishing relationships with people
who are in different roles or situations. - Linking - establishing relationships with people
in power. - (Woolcock, 1998)
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- The failure of many existing programs may be due
to - the traditional concentration on explicit social
skills training (Daniel et al., 2003) - rather than the development of tacit social
awareness (Sohlenkemp, 1999) - Linked to this is the difficulty in assessing
personal attributes andthe complexity of
reporting these skills to employers (Pardy, 2004)
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- What is needed for those with an intellectual
disability to be game2WORK ?
WORKPLACE SOCIAL CAPITAL
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- Supporting those with an intellectual
disabilities become game to work - Greg Carey
Flinders University 23/11/2006
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- References
- Black, R. S., Langone, J. (1997). Social
awareness and transition to employment for
adolescents with mental retardation. Remedial and
Special Education, 18(4), 214. - Carey, G. J. P. (2005). Using Moodle to support
the preparation of new workers who have an
intellectual disability. Paper presented at the
Moodle Moot 05, Oxford Institute of Legal
Practice, Oxford, United Kingdom. - Cherniss, C. (2000). Emotional Intelligence What
it is and Why it Matters. Paper presented at the
Annual Meeting of the Society for Industrial and
Organizational Psychology,, New Orleans, LA. - Daniel, B., Schwier, R. A., McCalla, G. (2003).
Social Capital in Virtual Learning Communities
and Distributed Communities of Practice. Canadian
Journal of Learning and Technology, 29(3). - Dourish, P., Bellotti, V. (1992). Awareness and
coordination in shared workspace. Paper presented
at the Proceedings of Computer Supported
Collaborative Work (CSCW) 1992., Toronto. - Dusseldorp Skills Forum. (2006). How are young
people faring 2006 - Key Indicators. An update
about the learning and work situation of young
Australians Dusseldorp Skills Forum. - Elksnin, L., Elksnin,N., Saborinie,E. (1993).
Job-related Social Skills Instruction of
Adolescents with Mild Mental Retardation. Journal
of Vocational Rehabilitation. - Greenspan, S., Granfield, J. M. (1992).
Reconsidering the construct of mental
retardation Implications of a model of social
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Retardation, 96, 442-453. - Jacobs, J. (1965). The death and life of great
American cities. NJ Penguin Books. - Kavale, K. A., Mostert, M. P. (2004). Social
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Skills- how students, teachers and employers can
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multimodality, and interdisciplinarity. Reading
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skills. Training Packages at Work Retrieved
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ViewArticle.asp?articleid1310 - Sohlenkemp, M. (1999). Supporting group awareness
in multi user environments through
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Informationstechnik - Germany. - Vaughn, S., Bos, C., Schumm, J. (2007).
Teaching students who are exceptional, diverse,
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Teaching self-determination to students with
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transition. MD Paul Brookes. - Woolcock, M. (1998). Social capital and economic
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