A systemic-interactionist model to design a competency-based curriculum

The paper A systemic-interactionist model to design a competency-based curriculum presents a theoretical model for the competence development in school. Various definitions of concepts have been suggested: competence, curriculum design, cognitive content, actional content and attitudinal content. Regarding the term of competence, although it is increasingly vehiculated today in specialty literature, but also in educational practice, there is no widely accepted definition of it, considered to be a reference in education. Therefore, there is a great variety of perspectives to define competence which may lead to the risk of confusion among experts, responsible for the design of educational programs based on training and competence development, but also among practitioners, those who implement competency-based training programs. The paper represent a plea for designing a competency-based curriculum and for a new and challenging approach, which highlights the need of a deep reconsideration of the curriculum, in order to adapt it to the actual paradigms of educational sciences and of the new educational realities. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.