Topic:Assistant teacher program/Practical philosophy/handout/Practical philosophy: Competence expectancies

Competence expectancies for the grades 7-9

[edit] Personal competence

Pupils

• reflect on the value of their own personality in relation to others and express awareness of their own aptitude,
• articulate the evaluation of emotions as societal influences and debate alternatives,
• experiment in fictional situations with reasonable actions and reactions, develop a rational point of view in face of strong emotions and take a responsible decision,
• evaluate complex circumstances and case studies and evaluate these appropriately,
• discuss examples of autonomous action and moral courage with respect to motives,
• represent different social roles authentically and anticipate and reflect on social roles,
• take decisions in the area of tension between freedom and responsibility,
• debate answers of religions and philosophy to the question about a meaningful life and devise their own well-founded answers.

[edit] Social competence

Pupils

• reflect on the value of the opinion of others and formulate appreciation and esteem of the other as a necessary foundation of a pluralistic society,
• take the view of people from different cultures and argument from their alien perspective,
• reflect on and compare individual moral evaluations with value systems of different world-views and deal tolerantly with them,
• recognize and reflect on cooperation as a principle of the working environment and the economy,
• get involved with possible motivations and goals of others and develop in daily interaction with each other a discerning acceptance,
• develop a constructive culture of criticism and argument in contentions guided by reason,
• learn about areas of social responsibility, experiment with possibilities to take responsibility and reflect on the necessity of responsible action in society.

[edit] Professional competence

Pupils

• comprehend societal problems in their causes and their historic development, discuss these under moral and political aspects and formulate possible answers,
• develop media literacy, act competent and discerningly with new media and reflect on the importance of media and media technologies,
• develop different images of humankind and of the treatment of nature and discuss fundamental questions of human existence with respect to different cultures,
• apprehend fundamental ethical and political concepts and apply these in context,
• explain moral evaluations guided by criteria,
• describe cognition processes and epistemological processes with differentiation and ascribe them to corresponding models,
• reflect on cultural phenomena and philosophical aspects of world religions,
• perceive societal developments and problems with their multi-cultural peculiarities, evaluate them morally/politically and develop tolerance for different views.

[edit] Methodological competence

Pupils

• describe complexity and perspectivity of perception,
• formulate philosophical thoughts and texts,
• define technical terms correctly and apply them appropriately,
• recognize contradictions in argumentations and determine preconditions and consequences of these contradictions,
• conduct thought experiments to solve philosophical problems,
• analyze moral dilemmas and conflicting values and evaluate them,
• debate about a philosophical topic in the sense of socratic philosophizing,
• author an argumentation about a philosophical topic and elaborate their thoughts with well-considered structure.

(Source: Core curriculum "Practical philosophy", North Rhine-Westphalia, PDF)