FLEXIBILITY AND CULTURE – A STUDENT PERSPECTIVE TO THE FUTURE KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
FLEXIBILITY AND CULTURE – A STUDENT PERSPECTIVE TO THE FUTURE KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

Summary/Abstract: Future-ready students are the key-concept of “The future of education and skills 2030” project provided by OECD in 2018. It is well known that climatic changes, technological development and migration will transform the labour market in the next few years. Education is facing an important challenge: how to equip the students with the competencies, skills and attitudes of the future. According to the previous official document, the most important challenges of the human society are environmental, economic, and social. More than ever, we need to broaden our perspective from individual to community, from personal to collective interest. The working group members and partners proposed some design principles for curricula and education systems that include flexibility for the process design: the curriculum should be adaptable and dynamic, reflecting evolving requirements. Flexibility becomes an important value that will mediate the educational process. Therefore, we have decided to investigate the implications of cultural dimensions on flexibility and to highlight the flexibility in the stylistics profile of professors. The questionnaire-based inquiry was developed in the first semester of the academic year 2019-2020 among approximately 200 students from “Transilvania” University of Brașov. All students are enrolled in teacher training programs, so they can become future-teachers. Our findings show that flexibility or adaptability is considered an important value in teaching behaviour. Nevertheless, there is an inconsistency in students’ responses regarding the semantic content of the concept. Therefore, the teacher training programs should provide aspects regarding the cultural and intercultural dimensions of education.

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