Competence areas: Communications & Teamwork - Knowledge Translation - Listening Attitude - Skills
Parent: Skills
Identified skills: Literacy - Numeracy - Digital Competence - Oral Communication - Civic Participation
For the Civic Participation skills, the seven levels of professional skill recognised in the Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA) offer a suitable structure, with levels ranging from 1-Follow at basic entry to 7-Set strategy, inspire, mobilise at a very senior level. The tags summarise the essence of the level.
- 1-Follow
- 2-Assist
- 3-Apply
- 4-Enable
- 5-Ensure/advise
- 6-Initiate/influence
- 7-Set strategy/inspire/mobilise
For each level a full generic definition is provided under the headings autonomy, influence, complexity, and social skills.
For each heading under each level the SFIA definition has served as a starting point.
These considerations have determined additions and modifications to the SFIA definitions:
- the need to reflect the social context in which the person acts; a social architecture classifies contexts at these levels:
- pico: age, gender, resource endowment, education, health, kinship and family-relationships, employment and livelihood as typical contextual determinants;
- micro: organisations of different kinds, such as companies, schools, medical centers, associations and public agencies provide contexts of work (and life);
- meso: the actors at the meso-level include industry associations, (sector) labour unions, standards organisations, science and engineering academies, and specialized public sector agencies at national and international level;
- macro: the actors at the macro-level include local and national governments and international agencies that have been created in international conventions and agreements.
- the need to reflect the three activity realms in which digital content technologies radically affect civic participation skills:
- the desire to explain for every person, at the skill level he or she has, how to engage in collective regulative bundles utilising the wikiworx.info components.
The proposed text for civic participation skills is open to further comments. Kindly provide such comments, either here or at the skills pages.
This page has been cited in a comment to Evaluation of World Bank Group Support to Youth Employment (SlideShare, Sept. 25, 2012):
Jan Goossenaerts
@collaboratewiki
This report covers the ''open government plans'' that US Federal agencies have developed in response to an early directive by President Obama.
The report also offers a series of specific recommendations for what next steps the White House and agencies might take to spread these best practices across the government.
Jan Goossenaerts
@collaboratewiki
In his Endangered Virtues essay on Civic Knowledge Russell Muirhead summarizes in four elemental points the kind of constitutional knowledge good citizens should have:
1. an understanding of the reasons for a separation of powers and what this means for the presidency and the courts;
2. it is fundamental to understand federalism, or the vertical division of power between the national government, the states, and the localities;
3. citizens should know the difference between representative democracy and direct democracy; the former inserts some kind of distance or deliberative space between the sovereign people and the laws;
4. individual rights, including awareness of the controversy of exactly what should count as a "right".
According to the author, a superb example is the Curriculum developed by the Center for Civic Education.
Jan Goossenaerts
@collaboratewiki
This policy brief summarizes the ways in which investments in democratic institutions and in education are mutually supportive in a virtuous circle. For example, well-functioning democratic institutions require an educated citizenry. Educated citizens are supportive of democratic ideals and institutions, and they play active roles in civic life and public decision making. Democratic regimes invest in education, and investments in better quality universal primary education lead to equitable growth.
Also posted at Zunia.
Jan Goossenaerts
@collaboratewiki