Second Survey School and WOW.pdf

WORKING GROUP: TRANSITION
transformed and, thereby, make some plausible inferences about future competence
requirements.
The changes in the cultures of work and professional and technical competencies are
connected with the rapid growth of the high‐tech industry, the emergence of a digital and
global economy, and the revolutionary developments in information and communication
technologies.
Work in organisations is increasingly becoming structured in teams and groups supported by
technology, and characterized by distributed expertise and networked activities. Challenge for
a modern organization is to organize work with knowledge in a way that facilitates continuous
knowledge advancement. A challenge to every employee is to develop competencies that
allow one to function as a knowledge worker, i.e. to engage in activities that added value to
knowledge rather than produce physical goods. Such skilled and often collaborative activities
include work wit a variety of knowledge artefacts or “objects”; besides theories. One might be
developing plans, proposals and designs; building, maintaining or structuring databases.
In modern society educational institutions and knowledge organizations are required to find
new models and practices for facilitating the creation and sharing of knowledge.
From an educational viewpoint qualifications an individual employee needs in the modern
work place are for instance:
high level technical skills
ability to be independent
to improve ones competences continiously
to be flexsible
to co‐operate
networked expertice
Germany
It is hardly possible to give an general answers to this question. One attempt to do that is the
description of concepts like key competencies, core‐competences and so on, e.g. by the OECD,
in the national school curricula or in for the bachelor Study programs. In such catalogues one
can find competences like
to interact properly in social situation, e.g. teamwork, communication
to deal effectively with major cultural techniques, e.g. literacy, numeracy, ICT
to gather and process information according to situations
to use methods to solve problems, e.g. process organisation
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