The topic of the transversal competences and soft skills needed for professions, required both by Europe and by the productive world, has exploded. In 2016, the European Commission issued a new Skills Agenda for Europe, which stresses the centrality of competences, especially digital and entrepreneurship competences, conceived as presuppositions for employment and innovation in the digital economy and society. Nowadays, in Italy a specific law dedicated to the competences of educators and pedagogists has been proposed. The great risk that can be glimpsed in the European model, on a critical and clinical perspective, is in the presumption of engineering existential flows and processes that, with this rationalizing operation, they can really be controlled and governed. The specificity of transversal competences and soft skills of the education professions, which manage with pedagogical intentionality and educational design all the areas of the course of human existence, from birth to old age, in multiple contexts, has to be stressed. Therefore, the formative pathways for the education of these professions require even more urgently a transformation of the pedagogical device, of the learning setting, of the educational models and didactic practices proposed to the students by the teachers and university organizations.

La questione delle competenze trasversali e delle soft skills per le professioni, richieste sia dall’Europa sia dal mondo produttivo, è esplosa. Nel 2016, la Commissione Europea ha emanato una nuova Skills Agenda for Europe, che enfatizza la centralità delle competenze, specialmente quelle digitali e connesse alla imprenditorialità, intese come precondizioni per l’occupazione e l’innovazione nella società e nell’economia digitale. In Italia, è stata proposta una specifica legge relativa alle competenze dell’educatore e del pedagogista. Il grande rischio che si può vedere nel modello europeo, da un punto di vista critico e clinico, risiede nell’ingegnerizzazione dei flussi e dei processi esistenziali che si pretende di controllare con la razionalità. La specificità delle competenze trasversali e delle soft skills delle professioni educative, che approcciano con intenzionalità pedagogica e progettazione educativa tutte le età e i contesti del corso dell’esistenza umana, deve essere sottolineata. Pertanto, i percorsi formativi per la formazione di queste professioni richiede una urgente trasformazione del dispositivo pedagogico, del setting di apprendimento, dei modelli educativi e delle pratiche didattiche proposte agli studenti dai docenti e dalle organizzazioni universitarie

Riva, M. (2017). Clinical-pedagogical reflections on soft skills in formative pathways for the education professions. PEDAGOGIA OGGI, XV(2), 277-295.

Clinical-pedagogical reflections on soft skills in formative pathways for the education professions

Riva, Mg
2017

Abstract

The topic of the transversal competences and soft skills needed for professions, required both by Europe and by the productive world, has exploded. In 2016, the European Commission issued a new Skills Agenda for Europe, which stresses the centrality of competences, especially digital and entrepreneurship competences, conceived as presuppositions for employment and innovation in the digital economy and society. Nowadays, in Italy a specific law dedicated to the competences of educators and pedagogists has been proposed. The great risk that can be glimpsed in the European model, on a critical and clinical perspective, is in the presumption of engineering existential flows and processes that, with this rationalizing operation, they can really be controlled and governed. The specificity of transversal competences and soft skills of the education professions, which manage with pedagogical intentionality and educational design all the areas of the course of human existence, from birth to old age, in multiple contexts, has to be stressed. Therefore, the formative pathways for the education of these professions require even more urgently a transformation of the pedagogical device, of the learning setting, of the educational models and didactic practices proposed to the students by the teachers and university organizations.
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Clinical-pedagogical reflections; soft skills; education professions
English
2017
2017
XV
2
277
295
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Riva, M. (2017). Clinical-pedagogical reflections on soft skills in formative pathways for the education professions. PEDAGOGIA OGGI, XV(2), 277-295.
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