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Trevor Dolan Stockholms university Department of Education
Which of the following categories of skill is disappearing from the work-place most rapidly?
1. Routine manual
2. Non-routine manual
3. Routine cognitive
4. Complex communication
5. Expert thinking/problem-solving
Routine cognitive: Clerks, accountants, Word processors/typists, Telephone switchboard operators, “Anyone who does what Google does”
Routine manual: Productive workers doing repetitive assembly tasks, Product inspectors and testers
Non-routine manual: Truck drivers. Janitors, Medical aides, Security guards, Waiters/waitresses, Walmart workers. (Autor could have added
construction and landscaping workers.)
Changes in demand for specific skills over a thirty‐year period. Source: Autor, Levy, & Murnane 2003
Modification Adaptation
Control Autonomy
Competition Cooperation
Push Pull
3D Map Of The Brain (Gould, 2009)
Wired: “Revealing the brain’s hidden connections” (Gould, 2009)
(Blackwell, Trzesniewski and Dweck, 2007, p. 254)
(Blackwell, Trzesniewski and Dweck, 2007, p. 254)
(Blackwell, Trzesniewski and Dweck, 2007, p. 257)
A schematic representation of developmental learning trajectories (Goswami, 2006, p. 15)
Thank You!