1. Trevor Dolan
Stockholms university
Department of Education

2. Which of the following categories of skill is disappearing from the work-
place most rapidly?
1. Routine manual
2. Non-routine manual
3. Routine cognitive
4. Complex communication
5. Expert thinking/problem-solving
Routine cognitive: Clerks, accountants, Word processors/typists, Telephone switchboard operators, “Anyone who does what Google does”
Routine manual: Productive workers doing repetitive assembly tasks, Product inspectors and testers
Non-routine manual: Truck drivers. Janitors, Medical aides, Security guards, Waiters/waitresses, Walmart workers. (Autor could have added
construction and landscaping workers.)

3. Changes in demand for specific skills over a thirty‐year period.
Source: Autor, Levy, & Murnane 2003

4. Modification Adaptation
Control Autonomy
Competition Cooperation
Push Pull

6. 3D Map Of The Brain (Gould, 2009)

7. Wired: “Revealing the brain’s hidden connections” (Gould, 2009)

9. (Blackwell, Trzesniewski and Dweck, 2007, p. 254)
(Blackwell, Trzesniewski and Dweck, 2007, p. 254)

10. (Blackwell, Trzesniewski and Dweck, 2007, p. 257)

11. A schematic representation of developmental learning trajectories
(Goswami, 2006, p. 15)

12. Thank You!