Analysis of the Essence of the Concepts of “Competence” and “Competency” in the System of Psychological and Pedagogical Categories

Abstract

The importance of the topic of the article is that nowadays there is a need to update methods and techniques of teaching in the educational process, the use of innovations in student teaching, because it is not important how much knowledge a student receives, but how one can use them in practice. The purpose of the article is the need to study and justify the importance of studying the essence of the concepts of “the competence” and “the competency” in the system of psychological and pedagogical categories. The article gives a theoretical justification for the concepts of “competence” and “competency” of the teacher in the pedagogical context; the similarity and difference of the concepts “the competence” and “the competency” in the system of psychological and pedagogical categories are investigated; the concept of professional competency and its categorical essence as a set of professional knowledge, skills, abilities necessary for both teachers and students in the XXI century is given. Nowadays, the purpose of school education is determined by the entirety of knowledge, skills and abilities that a student shouldacquire. In the XXI century, such a perspective is insufficient for society, because professional educational institutions, industry, families do not need weisenheimers, but graduates who are ready tointegrate in the real life, who have the ability to quickly and easily approach life and professional problems, which appear before them, so that getting into a problem situation, they could find several ways to solve it, to choose a practical way, justifying one’s decision.

Incidencia de la competencia informacional en las habilidades investigativas de los docentes de EBR

“…La competencia informacional o también denominada de alfabetización informacional, es aquella que alberga el conocimiento, destreza y cualidad que asume un sujeto con el fin de buscar, organizar (Cochrane, 2006;Colón, 2023;Cázares, 2023;Vásquez et al, 2022) reflexionar, vislumbrar, juzgar y utilizar la información de acuerdo a una temática de estudio con el fin de aportar a la sociedad con un nuevo conocimiento ( De los Santos y Martínez, 2021), para lograr solucionar los problemas que se presentan en la comunidad (Valverde & Rosales, 2017;Alonso-Arévalo & Saraiva, 2020). Montejo (2016), afirmó que esta competencia es un eje importante en la educación básica regular, porque la formación de esta se convierte en una práctica cotidiana presente en el desarrollo de los diferentes trabajos académicos, con el fin no solo de aplicar el método científico, sino que haga suyo los métodos, combine y desarrollo estudios cada vez con mayor profundidad, análisis y síntesis que aporte al campo académico (Vitello et al, 2021;Shchur et al, 2022). El problema general de la investigación correspondió: ¿Cómo incide la competencia informacional en las habilidades investigativas de los docentes de EBR de dos instituciones educativas públicas -¿Independencia, 2023?.…”