'Character matters': how do measures of non-cognitive skills shape understandings of social mobility in the global North and South? 'CHARACTER MATTERS': NON-COGNITIVE SKILLS AND SOCIAL MOBILITY
'Character matters': how do measures of non-cognitive skills shape understandings of social mobility in the global North and South? 'CHARACTER MATTERS': NON-COGNITIVE SKILLS AND SOCIAL MOBILITY
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“性格很重要”：非认知技能的衡量标准如何塑造对全球南北社会流动性的理解？
DOI：
10.1111/1469-8676.12103
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发表时间：
2015
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1.4
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Camfield L
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作者：
Camfield L
本文强调了对非认知技能的测量越来越感兴趣，这些技能正在塑造全球北方和南方关于贫困和社会流动性的辩论。我使用南非的创业计划和英国的“性格和韧性宣言”的例子来论证非认知技能正在被纳入对“穷人”缺点的叙述中。穷人的特征，或他们的“非认知技能”，是以种族中心主义和对阶级不敏感的方式来衡量的。这些测量的结果被用来解释他们的贫困，从而将人们的注意力从他们所处的政治和经济制度上转移开。
This paper highlights growing interest in measures of non‐cognitive skills that are shaping debate on poverty and social mobility in the global North and South. I use examples from an entrepreneurship programme in South Africa and the ‘Character and Resilience manifesto' in the UK to argue that non‐cognitive skills are being incorporated in a narrative of the shortcomings of ‘the poor'. The characteristics of the poor, or their ‘non‐cognitive skills', are measured in ways that are ethnocentric and insensitive to class. The results of these measurements are presented as an explanation of their poverty, drawing attention away from the political and economic systems in which they are embedded.