Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Käser, Udo
• Röhr-Sendlmeier, Una M.

Titel

Kompetenz als wissenschaftlicher Begriff und als Bildungsziel – Einleitung zum Themenheft

Ist Teil von

• Bildung und Erziehung (Stuttgart, Germany), 2017-05, Vol.70 (1), p.5-16

Ort / Verlag

Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Quelle

Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Different understandings of the term ‘competence’ in the fields of education, linguistics and psychology are outlined. The term’s global importance emerged through the reception of international comparisons of school achievement such as the PISA studies. A closer look at the relevance attributed to competence reveals that it is used with considerable variety of meaning even within the scope of the same empirical set-up. A solely cognitive understanding, but also emphasis on motivational or emotional processes, on metacognitive aspects or additional educational goals can be found in underlying definitions. Measurements only partly fulfill the explicated criteria. A standard definition is most needed. With respect to reasoning, criteria for competence can be defined more readily: Argumentations may be structurally differentiated according to underlying data, conclusion following rules of logic, support for the argument and exceptions. Thus, competent argumentation can be characterized by knowledge about these structural elements which is applied productively and in interaction.