Matching educational opportunities with competences Charalampos Thanopoulos Agro-Know Technologies...

Matching educational opportunities with competences

Charalampos ThanopoulosAgro-Know Technologies

cthanopoulos@agroknow,gr

Christian StrackeUniversity of Duisburg-Essen

Christian.Stracke@icb.uni-due.de

Pollenzo, Bra, ItalyOctober 25, 2012

Workshop on Agricultural Education, Methods, Practices and Technologies

Certificate

Learning Labour

Competence

CerOrganic curriculum

Competence description

Means the proven ability to use knowledge, skills and personal, social and / or methodological abilities in work and

study situations and in professional and/or personal development.

Competences represent the knowledge, skills, traits, attitudes, self-concepts, values or motives directly related to job performance or important life outcomes and shown to differentiate between superior and average performers.

Competence is a measurable human capability that is required for effective performance. It may be comprised of knowledge, a single skill or ability, a personal characteristic, or a cluster of two or more of these attributes. Competences are the building blocks of work performance. The performance of most tasks requires the simultaneous or sequenced demonstration of multiple competences

EQF, 2008

McClelland, 1973

Hoge et al., 2005

Common schema on the Competence description

Competence: = Knowledge + Skills (+ individual ability)

Activities: = Performance of Knowledge + Skills + Competences (+ individual ability)

Competences can be built and exist without being demonstrated and performed. They are non-observable; they are only shown and observable by acting, i.e. by performance and activities. Only activities can be observed and measured.

WACOM, 2010eCOTOOL, 2011AGRICOM, 2012

Competence example

• Required Competences for an Agricultural Expert in Organic Crop productiono Selection of appropriate crops for a particular

situationo Managing organic cropso Harvesting organic cropso Storage of organic crops

Competences differentiation

General Competences (Key Competences)

e.g. methods and processes are normally built after basic education and training

Specific Competences

Simple Competences Complex Competences

e.g. specialist knowledge in a certain domain

A complex competence can be composed of two, three or more simple competences.

Key Competences(http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/education_culture/publ/

pdf/ll-learning/keycomp_en.pdf)

1. Communication in the mother tongue2. Communication in the foreign languages3. Mathematical competence and basic competences

in science and technology4. Digital competence5. Learning to learn6. Interpersonal, intercultural, social and civic

competence7. Entrepreneurship8. Cultural expression

Example of Key Competences

Key Competences for an Agricultural Expert in Organic Crop Production

• Reading• Writing• Cognitive• Individual responsibility• Wiliness to learn

• Self-knowledge• Persistence and confidence• Honesty• Giving respect

Example of Specific Competences

Differentiation between competencesComplex - Simple Competences

ComplexCompetence

Writing technicalreports

Problem solving

Writing

Computercompetence

SimpleCompetences

Use cases & Examples

Job Profile

Example: Job Profile

Description of a course

Description of a Certificate

Example of a Europass CS description

Description of Competences

Examples of Competences I

Examples of Competences II

Conclusions: Benefits of implementing Competences

• Better description of Job profiles• Recognition of qualifications• Labour market requirements (Imposed by the

occupational circumstances)• Support a better match between the needs of labour

market for knowledge, skills and competences and Initial / Vocational Education and Training

• Transparency and comparability of training opportunities

• Facilitate the validation of the non-formal and informal learning

• Gap analysis / Measurement of training needs

thank you!Christian.Stracke@icb.uni-due.de

cthanopoulos@agroknow.grhttp://portal.cerorganic.eu