Care Institutions’ Operators: Training and Transformation in the Knowledge Society. Knowledge Society and training ways: a complex process process

With the development of the Knowledge Society – whose paradigm has supported the planning of the training activities – the demand for skills at both personal and professional level has increased in order to face complex new challenges. In this context, everyone has to constantly update skills and to acquire new ones, with the aim of adapting to changes and providing functional answers to the individual and collective well-being4. These are skills which cannot be acquired once and for all but, rather, must be updated continuously and subjected to rapid evolution in order to live and work in the society. In this case, the training action assumes the task of emancipating/transforming individuals and organizations. The paradigm of reference starts from the idea that in order to build the Knowledge Society at a global level, an essential role is played by life-long learning. Emphasizing the feature of contemporary society as a Knowledge Society, entails the need to define training strategies which allow, beyond the social transmission of knowledge, the acquisition of the special ability to face complexity and change within the working contexts, and not only (Alberici 2002).