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The topic of the Educational Policy Green Paper
2000 is competency.
Chapter 1 deals with the new challenges with
regard to competency.
Traditionally, subjects constitute the framework,
in which knowledge is created, developed and
maintained. This in particular applies to science
subjects but also to the subjects studied in trade
programmes and in programmes leading to a profession.
Subjects are also an organisational principle
for most programmes, where the totality of a
given programme consists of a plurality of teaching
subjects.
Subjects and competencies are therefore central
concepts in the educational system.
Subjects and competencies are being put under
pressure. Primarily due to an almost explosive
production of knowledge - both within, across
and outside the subjects. The amount of subjectmatter
is becoming more and more enormous
and tend to tax the framework of the traditional
subjects to breaking point. From within, through
the production of knowledge within the subject.
And from without, through other ways and
forums in which knowledge is developed and
transmitted. Furthermore, the working life, in
which the competency is to be used in the production,
is subject to a rapid reorganisation
towards a much more flexible labour market.
We therefore experience that more students seek
to build up their competencies across the existing
subject range. And the challenge facing the competencies
is therefore how we can ensure a subject-specific
environment from which students can
derive knowledge at the same time as it is possible
for them to cut across it and develop their own
competency in an individual perspective?
A possible answer to this challenge on the part of
the subjects is to find the core of the subjects -
their core competency. What is the inalienable
core of competency for which, under alle circumstances,
there will be a need also in a modern
world - and how do we maintain and develop it?
From a pedagogical point of view, the challenge is
both to maintain a high subject-specific level and
make it possible to cut across the different com-