User:Cheongsan Ryu

Educational Significance of Skills

‘Learning by doing’ means the convergence of knowing, attitude and doing. Knowing is included within cognitive domain, attitude is in affective domain, and doing is also psychomotor domain. These are called as Bloom’s behavioral objectives in the fields of education. Also, behavioral competencies such as cognitive, affective and psychomotor are related with skills in a view point that education is completed through the practice of learned knowledge. The relationship of these was designed by Ryu as follows [Figure 1].

Psychomotor competencies are categorized into unconscious group(①) or conscious group(④+⑥+⑦), affective competencies are classified into latent group(②) or expressive group(④+⑤+⑦), and cognitive competencies are divided into theoretical group(③) or practical group(⑤+⑥+⑦).

General skills can be defined as the sharing domain(④+⑤+⑥+⑦) among psychomotor, affective, and cognitive competencies, soft skills can be conceptualized by sharing domain(⑤+⑦) between affective and cognitive. And hard skills also can be explained by sharing domain(⑥+⑦) between psychomotor and cognitive.

If someone just has a positive attitude on one’s knowledge or information before doing, it means soft skills(⑤+⑦), and if someone has finished one’s specific task using knowledge or information, it means hard skills(⑥+⑦).

The key competency of general skills is the ⑦ domain among them(④+⑤+⑥+⑦), the core competency of soft skills is the ⑤ domain, and hard skills is the ⑥ domain. Therefore, educational significance is in the planning how to maximize the ⑦ domain.