EDUCATION, CITIZENSHIP SKILLS AND THE WORKPLACE

Skills can be defined as operational and functional knowledge, but also as the ability to adapt or reshape oneself according to opportunities or situations.

Professionally speaking, this approach is easy to understand, but in terms of citizenship… Is the concept of citizenship skills self-evident?

Can these skills be taught? How can corporate citizenship contribute to the promotion of citizenship skills? How can corporate citizenship be linked to the concept of citizenship skills? These are the questions addressed by the international experts invited to this Academic Conference, which took place on 20 November 2023 and focused on understanding why professional skills are inseparable from citizenship skills.

True to its educational vocation, the FEDE intends to demonstrate through the publication of this book that education and seduction are words that pair up very well.

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Contents

Introduction

Introduction to the concepts of citizenship skills and citizenship education: a school for the 21st century? – Patrick VIEU

Citizenship skills and higher education: what pedagogical innovation? – Hilligje VAN’T LAND

Faut-il apprendre les compétences pour une culture de la démocrate dans les programmes d’enseignement et de formation professionnels ? – Salvador SALA

The company as a social link operator: reflections on the social utility of the company – Stéphane HUGON

Afterword – Jean-Louis BISCHOFF

The co-authors:

A former student of ENA (Léon Gambetta class), Doctor of Philosophy, former advisor on ‘Environment and Territories’ in charge of transport and sustainable development issues at the Presidency of the Republic, opens the book by carefully examining the concept of civic skills; what emerges is that these skills, which he defines rigorously, can and must be taught.

Doctor of Comparative Francophone Literature, Secretary General of the International Association of Universities (IAU) — a global NGO with associate status at UNESCO — reflects on the innovation represented by teaching citizenship skills (critical thinking, self-awareness, openness to others, knowledge of human rights and duties) at university.

Doctor of Education in the field of social science teaching, associate professor at the University of Andorra, discusses the link between vocational training and citizenship skills.

A doctor of sociology from Paris V University and founder and director of the Eranos trend forecasting agency, he ultimately shows how businesses must play their role as agents of civilisation by promoting civic skills. The point of his presentation was clear: forms of business considered obsolete by the financial sector (mutual cooperatives) can have cultures rooted in citizenshipskills.

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