Editorial: What's new in a new competence regime

Citation

Nicoll K & Olesen HS (2013) Editorial: What's new in a new competence regime. RELA: European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, 4 (2), pp. 103-109. https://doi.org/10.3384/rela.2000-7426.201342

Abstract
First paragraph: The contemporary notion of competence emerged in political, educational and academic discussions of adult education and learning from the middle of the 1990s. This was connected with a shift in thinking about learning and education in the policy and public domain in which lifelong learning and learning outside education had become increasingly emphasized. In spite of its origin in a field of strong political interests and conflict, the notion of competence has now become formally integrated in administrative language use and a dominant framework of thinking on education and learning. It has become a new governing regime at a European level as well as to some extent at the level of the nation state.

Journal
RELA: European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults: Volume 4, Issue 2