СОЦІАЛЬНА КОМПЕТЕНТНІСТЬ ОСОБИСТОСТІ: ПІДХОДИ ДО ВИЗНАЧЕННЯ СУТНОСТІ

• Authors: Олена Варецька

Title variants

EN

Social competence of the personality: approaches to its definition

• Languages of publication: UK

Abstracts

EN

The paper shows the importance of individual social competence, outlines the main approaches to the definition of «social competence», which can be defined as knowledge (cognitive system), understanding, «Ego – society» correlation, the degree of training, practical efficiency, social skills, abilities, capability, personal qualities or formation, equilibrium, the transfer of social experience, the level of socialization, the result of social development, a set (complex) of competencies or constructive techniques, a part of philosophical category «art of living», functional competence, appropriate behavior, etc. Such notions as social knowledge (cognitive system), understanding, social intelligence, capacity for social interaction have been carefully analyzed. The research outlines that the knowledge of a competent person should meet the requirements of diversity, structuring, categorization, flexibility, efficiency, effectiveness; a competent person should have substantive and procedural knowledge, knowledge about his own skills and personal experience. It is emphasized that mere knowledge can’t guarantee the development of social competence. The attention is drawn to the importance of the ability to apply the knowledge effectively in the context of huge amount of disordered information with a variety of semantic relationships, meaning, subtext, technologies, critical thinking of an individual and his media informational competence as a component of social competence. The attention is paid to social and functional individual incompetence, the reasons for this incompetence have been analyzed. A teacher is referred to not only as a professional, but as an ordinary person who faces various problems every day being a market agent, a citizen, a member of legal, family and other relationships, a consumer of media information, a model, an authority, a «second mother» to younger pupils. The paper focuses on the importance of social competence for free understanding, use, interpretation of the totality of specialized and partially specialized knowledge, which have come into use, and account for general social erudition of an individual in this environment, application of individual knowledge as the basis for effective decision-making, the establishment of social interaction with society and the fulfillment of social roles, as well as readiness to change.

Keywords

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social competence of the individual social intelligence; aptitude; ability; incompetence; functional illiteracy

• Publisher: Sumy State Pedagogical University named after A.S. Makarenko
• Journal: Педагогічні науки: теорія, історія, інноваційні технології
• Year: 2014
• Issue: 10(44)
• Pages: 241-250

Dates

published

2014-11-24

Contributors

author

Олена Варецька