L'humanité comme compétence? Une zone d'ombre dans la professionnalisation aux métiers de l'interaction avec autrui

Abstract

For professions such as education and training, social work and health, human relations are an essential dimension of competence. Vocational education and training in this sector of the labour market, a series of expressions are used to refer to this dimension (such as the capacity for human relations, attitudes, interpersonal skills, social competencies, etc.). In the design of education and training, it is not easy to define as learning objects what is usually conceived as human qualifies. From the analysis of a set of documents (standards of competencies, assessment tools) and from interviews with practitioners, our research aims is to identify shades of grey in the reflection on this dimension of professional development with both epistemological and ethical challenges and, possibly, to illuminate this issue.