{"id":129,"date":"2021-01-28T14:03:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T14:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/holisticconsulting.eco\/?p=129"},"modified":"2021-09-13T14:24:43","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T14:24:43","slug":"democratic-competence-attitudes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holisticconsulting.eco\/index.php\/2021\/01\/28\/democratic-competence-attitudes-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Competence: Attitudes 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"129\" class=\"elementor elementor-129\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c74c7a7 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"c74c7a7\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-63bb057\" data-id=\"63bb057\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7254fba elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7254fba\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.6.7 - 03-07-2022 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#818a91;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#818a91;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>In my previous post, I found out what an \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/sisutravel.com\/2021\/01\/24\/democratic-competence-attitudes-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">attitude<\/a>\u201d is and which attitudes are essential to have in a democracy. Attitudes are made up of the four components\u00a0<em>belief, emotion, evaluation and behaviour<\/em>\u00a0and it seems that it all starts with belief. I must admit I was a little surprised that democracy seems to have more in common with \u201cfaith\u201d than with politics\u2026The European Council (EC) names\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sisutravel.com\/2021\/01\/24\/democratic-competence-attitudes-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">six attitudes<\/a>\u00a0that are essential for people to adopt in a democracy.<\/p><p>However, how do I actually \u201cperform\u201d these attitudes or what do they involve? Therefore, I have created tables in this post where I list those qualities that I need to have, according to the EC, and I copied the performance characteristics of these attitudes, so I don\u2019t get lost. I might be mistaken, but it seems one needs a lot of \u201csoft skills\u201d and rather \u201cfuzzy\u201d qualities to perform democratic attitudes:\u00a0<strong><em>Willingness to, Recognition of, Sensitivity towards, Curiosity about, Positive regard for, Belief in, Feeling of, Commitment to<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Acceptance of<\/em>, sense of accountability to etc.<\/strong><\/p><p>In a sense, democracy seems to be an \u201cattitude towards life\u201d in itself. Watching the U.S. I can\u2019t help but wonder this: either, democracy is an imagined ideal human condition that doesn\u2019t come naturally to the human species (i.e. civic education is a MUST), or something on the planet has gone astray that more and more people are no longer willing or able to perform these attitudes.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my previous post, I found out what an \u201cattitude\u201d is and which attitudes are essential to have in a democracy. Attitudes are made up of the four components\u00a0belief, emotion, evaluation and behaviour\u00a0and it seems that it all starts with belief. I must admit I was a little surprised that democracy seems to have more in common with \u201cfaith\u201d than with politics\u2026The European Council (EC) names\u00a0six attitudes\u00a0that are essential for people to adopt in a democracy. However, how do I actually \u201cperform\u201d these attitudes or what do they involve? Therefore, I have created tables in this post where I list those qualities that I need to have, according to the EC, and I copied the performance characteristics of these attitudes, so I don\u2019t get lost. I might be mistaken, but it seems one needs a lot of \u201csoft skills\u201d and rather \u201cfuzzy\u201d qualities to perform democratic attitudes:\u00a0Willingness to, Recognition of, Sensitivity towards, Curiosity about, Positive regard for, Belief in, Feeling of, Commitment to,\u00a0Acceptance of, sense of accountability to etc. In a sense, democracy seems to be an \u201cattitude towards life\u201d in itself. Watching the U.S. I can\u2019t help but wonder this: either, democracy is an imagined ideal human condition that doesn\u2019t come naturally to the human species (i.e. civic education is a MUST), or something on the planet has gone astray that more and more people are no longer willing or able to perform these attitudes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/holisticconsulting.eco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/holisticconsulting.eco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/holisticconsulting.eco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holisticconsulting.eco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holisticconsulting.eco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/holisticconsulting.eco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"https:\/\/holisticconsulting.eco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/holisticconsulting.eco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holisticconsulting.eco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holisticconsulting.eco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}