The Development Paths of Hermeneutic Competences: The End of an Alibi, the Beginning of a “Sunny Adventure”

Abstract

Hermeneutic competences are assigned to human nature, they are related to the substance of humanity and they are the core of the functioning of man in the world as they are distinguished by responsibility and the ability to understand, read and shape oneself and the surrounding environment of life as significant entireties constituted by senses. And their development is conditioned by the vertical and horizontal combination of various biological and cultural factors. In this context, academic education preparing for social professions in the areas such as pedagogy or social work should create proper conditions for the acquisition and improvement of the ability to refer professional and methodological knowledge to individual situations and people experiencing them and for understanding them. The article par exemple analyses and interprets methods of developing hermeneutic competences, and also outlines a new proposal of basing this process on the dynamisms of human existence.

Factors Impacting the Improvement of Hermeneutic Competences During Academic Education Preparing for Social Professions

“…Another group of references included publications related to the competences of educators (Szempruch, 2011;Koć-Seniuch, 2008;Madalińska-Michalak, Góralska, 2012) and new professionalism (Kwiatkowska, 1997(Kwiatkowska, , 2008Dróżka, 1997Dróżka, , 2008Gołębniak, 1998;Gołębniak, Zamorska, 2014;Mizerek, 1999), which is exceedingly strong, as it has been enlightened by hermeneutics (Dewe et al, 2001;Oevermann, 2016) and, publications directly relating to hermeneutical competences, although only a few of the latter were collected (Urbaniak, 2017;Piecychna, 2014, Bukowski, 2012. These central issues, therefore, had to be integrated overadditively, vertically and horizontally, and thus in a systemic way (Duraj-Nowakowa, 2006), in order to respond to the question to what hermeneutical competences are, what determinants impact them and how to develop their sources, acquired and formulated from the day of birth, determined by human nature, culture and education (Klasińska, 2018;Urbaniak, 2017).…”

“…Biological and cultural roots, innate and unchangeable, as well as the acquired and developmental character of competencies impact their profiling, so both the environment and the characteristics of each individual are sources of their experience (Martowska, 2012;Urbaniak, 2017;Klasińska, 2018). Research in action was applied mainly to learn about the determinants occurring in the university environment.…”