The international debate on competencies: exploring new educational possibilities / O debate internacional sobre competências: explorando novas possibilidades educativas

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2010

RESUMO

One of the greatest challenges faced by education at the beginning of this century is finding a basis to promote quality education for all. Nonetheless, defining quality and the main ways to achieve it has neither been a simple nor a consensual task. Amongst the various proposals surfaces the idea of education for the development of competences, which has resonated with scholars all over the world and more recently, also with Brazilian researchers and authorities. As can be observed in Brazil and various other countries, despite the quick introduction of the concept of competencies into the national educational regulations, the great majority of discussions about the concept remain focused on the school environment. Such a focus neglects the immense universe of educational practices conceived in less formal contexts that can, in fact, turn out to be privileged means to encourage certain competences, such as those related to social coexistence. The current proposal intends to shed some light on the debate about the educational possibilities found out-of-school from a competences approach perspective. Hence, we intend to contribute to widening the debate beyond the boundaries of school education. In this sense, we will review and the historical background of competences and contextualize the concept within the framework of non-formal education, based on the theoretical framework of Social Pedagogy, aimed to study this educational universe specifically.

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competências habilidades educação não-formal skills pedagogia social cooperação internacional educação internacional international cooperation non-formal education international education social pedagogy

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