An alternative frame to soft vs hard skills

An alternative to soft vs hard skills.

Dr Mandy Baker and her colleague did this fantastic bit of work around suggesting an alternative from to "soft" vs "hard" skills. The full paper talks about some of the problems with the original frame and suggests the following as an alternative:

• Technical Skills are the tangible or manual skills required to perform an outdoor activity to a standard level of competency (e.g., canoeing strokes, knot tying or top-rope set-up).

• Conceptual Practices are the application of concepts and/or knowledge needed or supportive of delivering an outdoor experience (e.g., pedagogies, values, philosophies, program design or critical thinking).

• Affective Abilities are defined as the interpersonal and intrapersonal abilities required to influence the development of positive relationships (e.g., debriefing, communication or collaboration) (Baker & O’Brien, 2019).

Source: https://apo.org.au/node/314914

It's fantastic that this kind of research is coming out of the outdoor sector.

I'm surprised how many people aren't familiar with the concepts in this paper.