Beyond the current political economy of competencedevelopment

dc.creator	Henning Salling Olesen
dc.date	2013-10-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-08-12T11:21:10Z
dc.date.available	2015-08-12T11:21:10Z
dc.identifier	10.3384/rela.2000-7426.rela9013
dc.identifier	2000-7426
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/90963aa3c27d474fa2d2f1db189d6594
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/28760
dc.description	Competence is a concept imported into the adult and continuing education arena fromthe psychological terminology of human resource development in work organizations. Ithas been elevated to a societal and political level as part of a new discursive regime.This article points out the significance of the particular circumstances in which thecompetence discourse has emerged, and argues for its critical investigation within aMarxist framework. A new discourse of learning and competence reflects a newmaterial dependency of capital(ism) on the concrete quality of work and workers, requiring a total program of learning for work. This opens a new arena of politicalstruggle over the direction of learning processes and the participation of workers inwork and society. The socio-economic realities and new understanding of theinterrelationship between knowledge, skills, learning and practice central to thecompetence concept, raises a potential issue about the role of work and the livingworker in a capitalist economy. This requires a re-development of the notion ofeconomy based in the value and interest of working people, and enabled by the fulldevelopment of the competences of the workers themselves. A notion of the “politicaleconomy of working people” is proposed as a framework for investigating thepotentials of competence development for enhanced democracy.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Linköping University Electronic Press
dc.relation	http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/rela.2000-7426.rela9013
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/2000-7426
dc.rights	CC BY-NC
dc.source	European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, Vol 4, Iss 2, Pp 153-170 (2013)
dc.subject	Competence
dc.subject	qualification
dc.subject	subjectivity
dc.subject	profession
dc.subject	political economy ofworking people
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Beyond the current political economy of competencedevelopment
dc.type	article