COMPETENCY 3-A

The ability to act within the big picture This key competency requires individuals to understand and consider the wider context of their actions and decisions. That is, it requires one to take account of how they relate, for example, to society’s norms, to social and economic institutions and to what has happened in the past. 

One needs to recognise how one’s own actions and decisions fit into this wider picture. 

This competency requires individuals, for instance, to:

● Understand patterns;

● Have an idea of the system in which they exist (i.e. understand its structures, culture, practices, and formal and informal rules and expectations and the roles they play within The Definition and Selection of Key Competencies

 Why

   ● The need to realise one’s identity and set goals, in complex world

   ● The need to exercise rights and take responsibility

   ● The need to understand one’s environment and its functioning

What competencies

   A. Act within the big picture

   B. Form and conduct life plans and personal projects

  C. Defend and assert rights, interests, limits and needs it, including understanding laws and regulations,     but also unwritten social norms, moral codes, manners and protocol. It complements an understanding of rights with knowledge of the constraints on actions;

   ● Identify the direct and indirect consequences of their actions; and 

   ● Choose between different courses of action by reflecting on their potential consequences in relation to individual and shared norms and goals.