Key Skills Qualification

Key skills are called on professional qualifications that will enable them to act. Within the Human Resources these are in addition to the expertise of the second central area of ​​staff development. They are therefore no expertise, but also enable the competent use of technical knowledge. Here, key qualifications are made up of a broad range of cross- skills that come from both the cognitive as well as in the affective domain. These skills can be used and transferred in different situations and functions flexibly and innovatively.

After defining the education commission NRW (1995 ) are key skills

" [ ... ] Acquirable general skills, attitudes and knowledge elements in the solution of problems and the acquisition of new skills in as many content areas of benefits, so that agency emerges, which makes it possible to be both individual and societal needs. "

  • 3.1 Social competence
  • 3.2 Methods competence
  • 3.3 Individual competence / self-competence / people skills / human competence
  • 3.4 Leadership Skills
  • 3.5 Media Literacy

Coinage

The term was first coined in the 1970s by Dieter Mertens. He understood among the key skills qualifications, which can serve as a "key " to getting rapidly changing technical knowledge. Than the term of the qualification would be the term competence as a skill is something objective, under competence but an individual property is understood. Here it is clear that early on with the concept of key skills is not the expertise of itself, but the capability to adapt and transfer of expertise was meant.

Breakdown

Key skills should not and can not substitute for the expertise, but also help develop in professional life, in view of the constantly changing requirements. They are therefore first content-neutral and apply the active professional life and interpersonal relationships.

Key competences for lifelong learning

The reference frame of 2006 issued Recommendation of the European Parliament and of the Council on key competences for lifelong learning encompasses eight key competences:

Among the main objectives of the reference frame belongs, " to identify the key competencies and to define which are necessary in a knowledge society for personal fulfillment, active citizenship, social inclusion and employability ." Each of these key skills is thereby assigned the same meaning as each of them can contribute to a successful life in a knowledge society.

Similar efforts to define key skills, at the same time find place in individual states.

They asked both the Standing Conference and the Bund- Länder Commission for Educational Planning and Research Promotion ( BLK) to expand the key skills to media literacy, as the digital media keep getting larger catchment into society.

Structure

Key Qualifications can be classified as skills ( in a possible categorization ) in five areas of competence:

The individual components of key skills can be defined as follows:

Social skills

Knowledge, skills and abilities that enable them to act appropriate to the situation in relations with people

  • Empathy ( empathy)
  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Leadership skills
  • Communication skills
  • Conflict resolution skills
  • Ability to cooperate
  • Teamwork

Methodological competence

Knowledge, skills and abilities that make it possible to cope with tasks and problems by making it possible to select, plan and implement meaningful solution strategies

  • Abstract and lateral thinking
  • Analysis capability
  • Thinking in context
  • Creativity
  • Learning and working techniques
  • Rhetoric

Individual competence / self-competence / people skills / human competence

Skills and attitudes, in which the individual attitude to the world and in particular to work expresses. Personality characteristics that have significance not only in the work process

  • Adaptability
  • Endurance
  • Load-bearing capacity
  • Commitment
  • Flexibility
  • Creativity
  • Motivation
  • Willingness to learn
  • Mobility
  • Motivation
  • Organizational skills, management skills
  • Independence
  • Time management
  • Reliability

Leadership Skills

The intersection of these three areas of expertise is the individual competence of a person. Competence in this context means the ability of a person to behave situationally appropriate, responsible to solve problems, to provide certain services and deal appropriately with other people, on the basis of a successful learning process. Competence is always individual, and is related with the acquisition and to their own values ​​and goals of individual reflection, mutually influencing skills acquired.

  • The disposition to acquire all skills
  • The cognitive control system that can be generated with the actions
  • Stable, universally applied and empirically imperceptible deep structure

Media Literacy

When it comes to media literacy that people can contribute as responsible citizens and reflected in today's knowledge society. Digital and analog media be under the observation of

  • Analysis
  • Selection
  • Assessment
  • Shaping
  • Use

Can be used.

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