Beyond the current political economy of competence development.

Autor/in	Salling Olesen, Henning
Titel	Beyond the current political economy of competence development.
Quelle	In: European journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, 4 (2013) 2, S. 153-170Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2000-7426
URN	urn:nbn:de:0111-opus-83020
Schlagwörter	Kompetenz; Wissen; Formale Bildung; Begriff; Subjektivität; Informelles Lernen; Interesse; Demokratie; Politische Ökonomie; Ökonomisches Verhalten; Arbeit; Arbeitskraft; Qualifikation; Lebenslanges Lernen; Arbeitsprozess; Diskurs; Kompetenzentwicklung; Konzeption; Theorie; Europa
Abstract	Competence is a concept imported into the adult and continuing education arena from the psychological terminology of human resource development in work organizations. It has 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 the competence discourse has emerged, and argues for its critical investigation within a Marxist framework. A new discourse of learning and competence reflects a new material 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 political struggle over the direction of learning processes and the participation of workers in work and society. The socio-economic realities and new understanding of the interrelationship between knowledge, skills, learning and practice central to the competence concept, raises a potential issue about the role of work and the living worker in a capitalist economy. This requires a re-development of the notion of economy based in the value and interest of working people, and enabled by the full development of the competences of the workers themselves. A notion of the "political economy of working people" is proposed as a framework for investigating the potentials of competence development for enhanced democracy. (DIPF/Orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2014/1