Islamic perspectives on instilling generic skills for students of higher learning institutions

Generic skills can be defined as “core skills”,”key competencies”, ”underpinning skills” as well as “capabilities”. More recently, generic skills also include personal attributes that are linked with values and identity. The commonly accepted definition of generic skills is “those transferable ski...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Khalim Zainal, Jamsari Alias, Mohamad Mohsin Mohamad Said, Wan Zulkifli Wan Hassan, Aminudin Basir @ Ahmad, Zulkifli Mohamad, Norshidah Mohamad Salleh
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2015
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9023/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9023/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9023/1/147-506-1-PB.pdf

id	ukm-9023
recordtype	eprints
spelling	ukm-90232016-12-14T06:48:45Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9023/ Islamic perspectives on instilling generic skills for students of higher learning institutions Khalim Zainal, Jamsari Alias, Mohamad Mohsin Mohamad Said, Wan Zulkifli Wan Hassan, Aminudin Basir @ Ahmad, Zulkifli Mohamad, Norshidah Mohamad Salleh, Generic skills can be defined as “core skills”,”key competencies”, ”underpinning skills” as well as “capabilities”. More recently, generic skills also include personal attributes that are linked with values and identity. The commonly accepted definition of generic skills is “those transferable skills which are essential for employability at some level for most” and the phrase “generic skills for employability” is now emerging as a common usage in public policy and research. This paper will discuss generic skills acquired by the students of one selected private university after they have undergone courses related in developing those skills. The findings from the research will be crossrelated to generic skills from the Islamic perspectives. This is in line with views from Islamic scholars such as Imam as-Shafi’i whom had proposed that interpersonal skills will develop generic skills that could inculcate a holistic individual comprising of Self Concept and Personality, Communication, Conflict resolution and Leadership. These skills are vital in carving human capital to be an important asset for an organization to achieve its goal. The paper will also discuss the findings and its relation from Islamic perspectives in fulfilling every individual’s attributes and values so as to be compatible with Islamic values. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2015 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9023/1/147-506-1-PB.pdf Khalim Zainal, and Jamsari Alias, and Mohamad Mohsin Mohamad Said, and Wan Zulkifli Wan Hassan, and Aminudin Basir @ Ahmad, and Zulkifli Mohamad, and Norshidah Mohamad Salleh, (2015) Islamic perspectives on instilling generic skills for students of higher learning institutions. Jurnal Psikologi Malaysia, 29 (1). pp. 74-82. ISSN 2289-8174 http://spaj.ukm.my/ppppm/jpm/issue/view/22
repository_type	Digital Repository
institution_category	Local University
institution	Universiti Kebangasaan Malaysia
building	UKM Institutional Repository
collection	Online Access
language	English
description	Generic skills can be defined as “core skills”,”key competencies”, ”underpinning skills” as well as “capabilities”. More recently, generic skills also include personal attributes that are linked with values and identity. The commonly accepted definition of generic skills is “those transferable skills which are essential for employability at some level for most” and the phrase “generic skills for employability” is now emerging as a common usage in public policy and research. This paper will discuss generic skills acquired by the students of one selected private university after they have undergone courses related in developing those skills. The findings from the research will be crossrelated to generic skills from the Islamic perspectives. This is in line with views from Islamic scholars such as Imam as-Shafi’i whom had proposed that interpersonal skills will develop generic skills that could inculcate a holistic individual comprising of Self Concept and Personality, Communication, Conflict resolution and Leadership. These skills are vital in carving human capital to be an important asset for an organization to achieve its goal. The paper will also discuss the findings and its relation from Islamic perspectives in fulfilling every individual’s attributes and values so as to be compatible with Islamic values.
format	Article
author	Khalim Zainal, Jamsari Alias, Mohamad Mohsin Mohamad Said, Wan Zulkifli Wan Hassan, Aminudin Basir @ Ahmad, Zulkifli Mohamad, Norshidah Mohamad Salleh,
spellingShingle	Khalim Zainal, Jamsari Alias, Mohamad Mohsin Mohamad Said, Wan Zulkifli Wan Hassan, Aminudin Basir @ Ahmad, Zulkifli Mohamad, Norshidah Mohamad Salleh, Islamic perspectives on instilling generic skills for students of higher learning institutions
author_facet	Khalim Zainal, Jamsari Alias, Mohamad Mohsin Mohamad Said, Wan Zulkifli Wan Hassan, Aminudin Basir @ Ahmad, Zulkifli Mohamad, Norshidah Mohamad Salleh,
author_sort	Khalim Zainal,
title	Islamic perspectives on instilling generic skills for students of higher learning institutions
title_short	Islamic perspectives on instilling generic skills for students of higher learning institutions
title_full	Islamic perspectives on instilling generic skills for students of higher learning institutions
title_fullStr	Islamic perspectives on instilling generic skills for students of higher learning institutions
title_full_unstemmed	Islamic perspectives on instilling generic skills for students of higher learning institutions
title_sort	islamic perspectives on instilling generic skills for students of higher learning institutions
publisher	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate	2015
url	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9023/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9023/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9023/1/147-506-1-PB.pdf
first_indexed	2023-09-18T19:53:47Z
last_indexed	2023-09-18T19:53:47Z
_version_	1777406393362415616

Islamic perspectives on instilling generic skills for students of higher learning institutions

Similar Items