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Część monograficzna: Krajowe Ramy Kwalifikacji z perspektywy rozwoju człowieka
Monograph: The National Qualifications Framework from the perspective of human development

Author(s): Beata Przyborowska, Piotr Błajet
Subject(s): Psychology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: human development; reform; the National Qualification Framework; education

Summary/Abstract: The article aims at a comparative analysis of the assumptions of the National Qualifications Framework (NQF) for lifelong learning – spiral dynamics forwarded by C. Graves, and complimented by L. Vygotsky’s zone of proximal development (ZPD). The content of NQF has been analyzed in terms of social competences in relation to the descriptions of levels in development according to the spiral dynamics. The analyses show that NQF does not incorporate the rules of human development support to a satisfactory extent. Moreover, in NQF assumptions, an atomistic approach seems to preponderate the relational one. This may prove that according to the NQF, which barely entails post-conventional competences, education becomes inadequate to post-conventional Europe.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 43 (2)
  • Page Range: 253-266
  • Page Count: 14