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Professional competencies in health promotion and public health: what is common and what is specific? Review of the European debate and perspectives …
2015
According to the Nairobi Call to Action, the growth of practitioners' skills can be favoured by setting accreditation standards and by reorienting professional competencies of current and future health workers. This will make it possible to develop a critical mass of competent practitioners, foster training, and increase visibility of the professional field. Through a review of the literature, the authors offer an overview of competency-based strategies for professional development in health promotion. The main research questions discussed were as follows: Is there a shared definition of public health?; Is there a shared definition of health promotion?; Who are the main stakeholders for pub…
Mental health promotion competencies in the health sector based on a Delphi study
2018
Purpose Effective public mental health policy and practice call for a trained workforce that is competent in mental health promotion and delivering on improved mental health. Systematic information on what competencies are needed for mental health promotion practice in the health sector is lacking. The purpose of this paper is to investigate these competencies for mental health promotion. Design/methodology/approach A Delphi survey was carried out to facilitate a consensus-building process on development of the competencies. Professionals (n=32) working in mental health and mental health promotion took part in the survey. The experts were asked their professional views on the needed compet…
Managerial competencies, innovation and engagement in SMEs: The mediating role of organisational learning
2017
Abstract According to job demands-resources theory, resources promote positive attitudes, which results in several positive behaviors at work. However, there is little research that examines the effect of managerial competencies on positive attitudes at work. Our research proposes a scale of 7 managerial competencies that evidence to be connected with a particularly relevant attitude at work, namely, engagement. We find that the proposed managerial competencies scale overcomes the required psychometric properties, on the basis of a sample of 204 managers of Spanish SMEs. Following job demands-resources theory, our study confirms a direct and positive effect of the 7 managerial competencies …
Teaching competences in Secondary Education : analysis of teachers’ profiles
2014
This paper reports some of the findings from a study that aimed to analyse the importance attributed by secondary education teachers from the province of Castellón (Spain) to teaching competencies and to establish professional profiles from their responses. The survey was based on a purposely designed questionnaire answered by a representative sample of 136 secondary teachers from Castellón, representing 23 school departments. From an analysis of the responses we identified three professional profiles based on the importance that teachers attribute to a range of competencies; although all the competencies were valued highly, we found that teachers still consider the traditional delivery of …
Personal Competencies Enhancing Organizational Competences of Emergency Medical Units in Poland - Empirical Research
2018
In turbulent and often chaotic environments, healthcare organizations need to develop and nurture a unique set of resources. These sets are built into/out of skills and capabilities, often referred to as core competences. Competency identification systems need to identify both – personal (managerial and professional) competencies and organizational competences. This article is focused on identification of the common professional competencies of medical personnel and managerial competencies of managers significantly shaping organizational competences of Emergency Medical Units in Poland. There were constructed models of personal competencies – managerial and professional. The model of manage…
Fostering learning and innovation skills in Initial Teacher Education
2018
L'opportunità di partecipare attivamente alla formazione iniziale degli insegnanti e l'esperienza di ricerca svolta durante il dottorato ha consentito all’a. di verificare come creare, attraverso l’uso delle tecnologie, ambienti di apprendimento e situazioni didattiche che migliorano le soft skills dei futuri docenti. È stato così possibile esplorare nuovi ambienti di apprendimento e di insegnamento, nuove forme organizzative e nuove modalità di interazione tra docenti e studenti verificandone la validità e l’efficacia. Le conclusioni ricavate dalla ricerca hanno fornito indicazioni utili per il miglioramento delle competenze trasversali dei futuri docenti. Numerous studies reveal that ther…
TRANSVERSAL COMPETENCES IN HIGHER EDUCATION CURRICULUM OF POPULAR MUSIC STUDIES IN SCOTLAND: CURRENT FRAMEWORK, PROBLEMS AND FUTURE POTENTIAL
2017
Transversal competences - alternatively referred as ‘21st century skills’ and ‘key competencies’ is a term rigorously discussed within the international research and education community since the beginning of the century. However, two major challenges remain, such as how to efficiently integrate the concept of transversal competencies into existing programmes, as well as how to assess transversal competences across the curriculum. It is important to recognise the potential for applying the concept of transversal competences to popular music curricula, as this multidisciplinary field combines all three aspects: broader creative sphere (musicianship, composition, cultu…
Assessing Master Students' Competencies Using Rubrics: Lessons Learned from Future Secondary Education Teachers
2020
The aim of this paper is to provide insights into the appropriateness of teaching-learning and evaluation processes using rubrics, for student self-assessments. We studied students enrolled on the Master&rsquo
VET workers’ problem-solving skills in technology-rich environments: European approach
2014
International journal for research in vocational education and training 1 (2014) 1, S. 57-80
Key competences and plurilingual education in the Valencian Region (Spain) : a curricular analysis of Primary Education
2020
The purpose of this work is to study the level of transversality of key competences in Primary Education in the Valencian Community. To this end, an analysis of the Decree 108/2014 cur-rently in effect will be carried out, along with determining the frequency with which each competence is worked on during this stage of education. The data obtained will be interpreted bearing in mind plurilingual programs and, more specifically, the basis of the methodological needs that are pursued in CLIL, the approach to teaching non-linguistic areas through a foreign language. Generally, the findings point to a lack of transversality in some of the competences, one of them being the linguistic competence…