Abstract
AbstractThis chapter examines the basis of the pervasiveness and persistence of the possessive, skills and attributes perspective on graduate employability, despite the well-attested problems with that perspective and the existence of published alternative approaches. It identifies the origins of the perspective in the possessive individualist assumptions about the nature of human persons and society, as explored by the political philosopher C. B. Macpherson. The chapter argues that these assumptions, central to the development of capitalist society and to its current neoliberal form, coupled with conceptual confusion about the key terms (skills, attributes, etc.), sustain flawed and unsustainable approaches to graduate employability.
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Springer International Publishing
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