Student Profile

What is ERC Student Profile?

ERC Student Profile is the profile of an enlightened, well-rounded, productive citizen in modern society. It consists of an epistemic dimension and a functional dimension. The epistemic dimension consists of a coherent repertoire of conceptions (concepts, laws, models and other conceptual entities) drawn from the formal disciplines which various curricula are about. The functional dimension includes generic habits of mind, i.e., skills and dispositions (values, attitudes, affects, etc.), that are critical for meaningful learning of course materials, as well as for lifelong learning and success in modern life. Cross-disciplinary habits of mind are the most critical in these respects, especially for realizing the big picture within and across disciplines. Such habits of mind empower students to be paradigmatic thinkers, as well as productive, proactive and principled citizens.

P1.    Paradigmatic

A paradigmatic student realizes that knowledge construction and deployment in every professional field is governed by certain paradigm(s) in line with which s/he needs to develop her/his own profile. For efficient transcendence of one’s own paradigm(s), the student concentrates on a balanced and comprehensive repertoire of foundational and generic episteme and cross-disciplinary habits of mind that allow one to realize the big picture within and across disciplines.

P2.    Productive

A productive student relies on systematic means and ways, cognitive and technical, for meaningful development and constructive deployment of conceptions and habits of mind within each discipline, and for productive and creative extrapolation of conceptions and habits into other disciplines and everyday life.

P3.    Proactive

A proactive student adopts a clear vision for her/his own education and future, and develops an affinity to detect and resolve problems, and to anticipate, and cope with, new challenges. The student continuously seeks, and assumes control of, new learning experience in order to evaluate and regulate her/his own profile; s/he constructively engages with others to help them do the same, and subsequently to empower self and others for lifelong learning and profile development.

P4.    Principled

A principled student embraces positive dispositions, especially those that empower one’s own culture and disciplinary paradigms, and interacts conscientiously, respectfully and constructively with others and environment.