{"id":6931,"date":"2017-03-30T05:03:33","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T05:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6931"},"modified":"2017-03-30T05:39:25","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T05:39:25","slug":"thu-more-on-unesco-competencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2017\/03\/30\/thu-more-on-unesco-competencies\/","title":{"rendered":"More on UNESCO competencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote the other day about UNESCOs latest and rather surreal publication on learning outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>The whole thing is couched in the language of competencies, as is rather too-Germanic for my taste (that is not a political judgement). \u00a0This seems a key passage:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There is general agreement that sustainability citizens\u00a0need to have certain key competencies that allow them to\u00a0engage constructively and responsibly with today\u2019s world. \u00a0Competencies describe the specific attributes individuals\u00a0need for action and self-organization in various complex\u00a0contexts and situations. They include cognitive, affective,\u00a0volitional and motivational elements; hence they are an\u00a0interplay of knowledge, capacities and skills, motives and\u00a0affective dispositions. Competencies cannot be taught,\u00a0but have to be developed by the learners themselves. They\u00a0are acquired during action, on the basis of experience and\u00a0reflection (UNESCO, 2015; Weinert, 2001). \u00a0Key competencies represent cross-cutting competencies\u00a0that are necessary for all learners of all ages worldwide\u00a0(developed at different age-appropriate levels). \u00a0Key\u00a0competencies can be understood as transversal,\u00a0multifunctional and context-independent. They do not\u00a0replace specific competencies necessary for successful action\u00a0in certain situations and contexts, but they encompass these\u00a0and are more broadly focused (Rychen, 2003; Weinert, 2001). \u00a0The following key competencies are generally seen as crucial\u00a0to advance sustainable development (see de Haan, 2010;\u00a0Rieckmann, 2012; Wiek et al., 2011).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Systems thinking competency<\/li>\n<li>Anticipatory competency<\/li>\n<li>Normative competency<\/li>\n<li>Strategic competency<\/li>\n<li>Collaboration competency<\/li>\n<li>Critical thinking competency<\/li>\n<li>Self-awareness competency<\/li>\n<li>Integrated problem-solving competency<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Whilst I wonder what happened to\u00a0<em>bildungs kompetence <\/em>which seemed all the rage a few years ago, this exhausting list also misses out what, for me, has to be the most important\u00a0\u00a0competency:\u00a0<em>Competency competency<\/em>, without which you cannot be competent at handling competency \u2013 if you see what I mean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote the other day about UNESCOs latest and rather surreal publication on learning outcomes. The whole thing is couched in the language of competencies, as is rather too-Germanic for my taste (that is not a political judgement). \u00a0This seems...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-new-publications"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}