Defining and selecting key competencies
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Defining and selecting key competencies
Hogrefe & Huber, c2001
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What skills and competencies are needed in today's workplaces and other social environments, and how can they best be studied and promoted? The answers to these and other related questions lie in a variety of disciplines, and this multidisciplinary study under the auspices of the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development), carried out by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office and the Education Statistics Services of the American Institutes of Research, provides a theoretical and conceptual basis for the mass of empirical findings that are currently being generated. This volume brings together contributions from international authorities, providing a comprehensive overview of advances and conceptions of life skills and key competencies from a variety of perspectives: historical, philosophical, psychological, sociological, economic and anthropological. Other chapters synthesize these views, looking at common ground with regard to functioning in groups, epistemology, and policy and practice in the real world. The final chapter presents a coherent framework which can be used in further work.
Table of Contents
- Preface, Heinz Gilomen, Swiss Federal Statistical Office Introduction: An overview, Dominique Simone Rychen, Swiss Federal Statistical Office Competencies for life: A theoretical and empirical challenge, Laura H. Salganik, Education Statistics Services Institute, American Institutes for Research, USA Concepts of competence: A conceptual clarification, Franz Weinert, Max Planck Institute, Germany Concepts of competence: A historical perspective, John C. Carson, University of Michigan, USA Key competencies: A philosophical perspective, Monique Canto-Sperber, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
- Jean-Pierre Dupuy, Ecole Polytechnique, Centre de Recherche en Epistemologie Appliquee, France Key competencies: A psychological perspective, Helen Haste, University of Bath, UK Key competencies: A sociological perspective, Philippe Perrenoud, University of Geneva, Switzerland Key competencies: An economic perspective, Frank Levy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
- Richard J. Murnane, Harvard University, USA Key competencies: An anthropological perspective, Jack Goody, St. John's College, University of Cambridge, UK Common ground: Functioning in groups and managing emotions, Cecilia Ridgeway, Stanford University, USA Common ground: Competencies as working epistemologies, Robert Kegan, Harvard University, USA Key competencies: Viewpoints from policy and practice, Jacques Delors and Alexandra Draxler, Task Force on Education for the Twenty-first Century, UNESCO
- Jean-Patrick Farrugia, Le Mouvement des Entreprises de France (MEDEF), France
- Bob Harris, Education International
- George Psacharopoulos, University of Athens, Greece [formerly with the World Bank]
- Laurell Ritchie, Canadian Auto Workers, Canada
- Leonardo Vanella, Centro de Estudios e Investigacion del Desarrolo Infanto Juvenil, Argentina Towards a theoretical and conceptual framework, Dominique Simone Rychen, Swiss Federal Statistical Office
- Laura H. Salganik, Education Statistics Services Institute, American Institutes for Research
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