The discourse of “skills” has dominated educational policy for the last thirty years; soft skills, hard skills, transferable skills, marketable skills. I have found myself, many times, in the midst of bizarre moments where a university administrator or a funding agency has asked me to reframe a syllabus, a graduate degree, a community program, and even an extra curricular offering, in the language of skills. Everything in education, it seems, must be a unit to count, measure, accumulate, and then, hopefully, take to market. While we struggle with the corporatization of adult and higher education institutions, the austerity that defunds pedagogical work in communities, and the neoliberal logics that reduce students to clients and consumers, we find ourselves constantly negotiating our viability as a field of practice and scholarship in relation to the “human capital” we might produce.

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书评：人力资本的消亡：它失败的承诺以及如何在一个颠覆性的时代更新它，作者：Brown, P.、Lauder, H. 和 Cheung, SY

在过去的三十年里，“技能”的话语主导了教育政策。软技能、硬技能、可转移技能、适销对路的技能。很多时候，我发现自己正处于奇怪的时刻，大学行政人员或资助机构要求我用技能语言重新制定教学大纲、研究生学位、社区计划，甚至是课外活动. 看来，教育中的一切都必须是一个可以计数、衡量、积累的单位，然后有希望地推向市场。当我们与成人和高等教育机构的公司化、社区教学工作的财政紧缩以及将学生变成客户和消费者的新自由主义逻辑作斗争时，