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Natura kompetencji a ograniczenia i trudności w kształceniu międzykulturowym nauczycieli edukacji elementarnej
The Nature of Competences and Limitations in Intercultural Education of Elementary Education Teachers

Author(s): Ilona Nowakowska-Buryła, Krystyna Kusiak
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Education
Published by: Uniwersytet Ignatianum w Krakowie
Keywords: The Nature of Competences and Limitations in Intercultural Education of Elementary Education Teachers

Summary/Abstract: Competence is a complex concept – it is difficult to precisely define and describe its essence. Competences are characterised by multidimensionality, overlapping scopes, limiting the possibility to operationalise, contextuality, transferability, gradability and subjective nature. In case of intercultural competences, their complicated nature makes them difficult to shape, especially in the affective and behavioural dimension. Similar difficulties are related to the evaluation of that area during which a researcher should be conscious whether he/she diagnoses external and observable signs of competences, or just a subjective sense of one’s competence of a subject, which is not always compliant with its objective level.

  • Issue Year: 14/2019
  • Issue No: 2 (52)
  • Page Range: 41-53
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: English, Polish