Key Competencies for a Successful Life and a Well-Functioning Society

By Dominique Simone Rychen, L. Salganik. 2003

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Ageing and Skills: A Review and Analysis of Skill Gain and Skill Loss over the Lifespan and over Time. OECD Education Working Papers, No. 72. (2012, unknown): “…data from this round of collection were released in November 7 Competencies are defined as the ability to successfully meet complex demands in a particular context through mobilization of psychosocial prerequisites including both cognitive and non cognitive elements (see Rychen & Salganik, 2003).”
The graduate attributes we’ve overlooked: enhancing graduate employability through career management skills (2009, background): “For instance, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) Definition and Selection of Key Competencies (Rychen & Salganik, 2003, 2005) suggests that the capacities of reflectiveness and lifelong learning underpin three broad categories of competencies necessary for ‘a success”
Transversal Competences: Their Importance and Learning Processes by Higher Education Students (2018, background): “In line with this deﬁnition, Rychen and Salganik [32] (p. 43) deﬁne competence as “the ability to successfully meet complex demands in a particular context through the mobilization of psychological prerequisites including both cognitive and non-cognitive aspects.””
Positive Indicators of Child Well-Being: A Conceptual Framework, Measures, and Methodological Issues (2011, methodology): “That same attention is now being paid to research, policies, and programmes that focus on enhancing personal efficacy, autonomy, and responsibility, and promoting skills such as planfulness, conflict resolution, and cultural sensitivity with the understanding that this approach will lead to adults w”
Engineering Competence? An Interpretive Investigation of Engineering Students' Professional Formation (2011, background): “…profession more closely with a wider range of stakeholders and society at large (Committee on Public Understanding of Engineering Messages, 2008; Salganik & Rychen, 2003) and engineers are consequently faced with questions concerning the social and ethical implications of their work (ASEE,…”
Theoretical Perspectives Guiding QOL Indicator Projects (2011, background): “Rychen and Salganik (2003) described a set of competencies that ultimately is a prerequisite to human functionings and well-being.”
Graduate competencies and employability: The impact of matching firms’ needs and personal attainments (2013, background): “These key 2 competencies can be obtained through experience, training or more informal means (Hartog, 2001; Rychen & Salganik, 2003; García-Aracil & Van der Velden, 2008).”
Learning to Learn: What is it and Can it Be Measured? (2008, methodology): “…“a highly valued outcomes at the individual and societal levels in terms of an overall successful life and a well-functioning society”, an “instruments for meeting important, complex demands and challenges in wide spectrum of contexts” and “important for all individuals”(Rychen, 2003, p. 66 - 67).”
Teachers' pedagogical beliefs and their use of digital media in classrooms: Sharpening the focus of the 'will, skill, tool' model and integrating teachers' constructivist orientations (2012, background): “…ascribed to information and communication technologies (ICT) in current discussions about education policy (e.g. Delors, 1998; Kozma, 2008; Rychen & Salganik, 2003), educational researchers need to address why so many schools have been so slow to adopt digital technology, and why so many…”
Factors explaining the learning of generic skills: a study of university students’ experiences (2018, background): “…millennium, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) initiated the Definition and Selection of Key Competencies project, which defined the key competencies that are required by all citizens for a successful life and for a well-functioning society (Rychen and Salganik 2003).”
Creativity, Critical Thinking, Communication, and Collaboration: Assessment, Certification, and Promotion of 21st Century Skills for the Future of Work and Education (2023, background): “…(hard skills, to be precise), the ability to communicate effectively is a competence that may draw on an individual’s knowledge of language, writing skills, practical IT skills, and emotional intelligence, as well as attitudes towards those with whom one is communicating (Rychen and Hersch 2003).”