期刊名称：European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults
电子版ISSN：2000-7426
出版年度：2012
卷号：3
期号：2
页码：119-134
DOI：10.3384/rela.2000-7426.rela0071
出版社：Linköping University Electronic Press
摘要：When we think about current adult education in the context of the uneven and contradictory social and economic mpact of globalization, it necessarily implies thinking about the transfer from the paradigm of lifelong education to the paradigm of lifelong learning. We shall examine the essential quality involved in the social significance and the political dimension of each of these paradigms, because, since the post-war period, both became innovative educational policy strategies capable of mobilizing and transforming society. We would like to stress the importance of rethinking the role of adult education today in the light of the responsibilities shifting from the state to individuals, arising from the implications of this transition of paradigms: we do this by framing it in the context of the socio-productive restructuring movement, which speeded up the move from the so-called model of qualification, associated to social emancipation, to what is known as the model of competence (later competences), which is associated with individual empowerment. Therefore in this article we intend to question this new policy direction, which is associated with a conceptual and methodological shift in adult education practices, by using the prism of a critical sociology of education.
关键词：Adult education; lifelong education; qualifications for social emancipation; lifelong learning; competences for individual empowerment
