Seminar Online Competence and Competence Developement

Description of the Lecture Lifelong learning is vital for everyone and about making everyone’s potential employable. People should be aware that they are always learning everywhere, and above all, not always in a conscious or self-chosen learning situation. The degree in which individuals consciously build on this is however still strongly underexposed and under-utilised. Lifelong learning is mainly implemented as a top-down strategy aiming at the adaption to the new circumstances of the learning-system and the labour market and the economic usage of its citizens. Lifelong learning should however be better put to work in a bottom-up strategy by taking account of the individual potential and his/her (possible) learning! This means, not exclusively focusing on the economic functions of learning but more on the autonomous development of competencies and validation of competences by its citizens . In this way The L earning Society will come to full bloom: a society in which the co-makership of the people is valued and utilized. This seminar focuses on the many perspectives of the learning society and the help these perspectives can get from the concepts of competences and learning outcomes, for both development as well as validation! The steps in the seminar: - historical overview: learning in transitional societies - the generic perspective: from education to learning - specific perspectives: economic, social, educational and cultural perspectives. - validating competences in learning, working and citizenship - a practice: validating ‘my competences’ Literature: Duvekot, R.C. (2009) emPOWERment to the people! The learner as change-agent in the Learning Society. Paper for the international seminar ‘Recognition and Validation of Prior Learning and Competences’ of the Leonardo da Vinci-project ‘TES, Developing Teacher’s Evaluation and Assessment Skills’, Lahti, Finland, September 30, 2008. Duvekot, R.C., G. Scanlon, A. Charraud, K. Schuur, D. Coughlan, T. Nilsen-Mohn, J. Paulusse & R. Klarus (eds.) (2007). Managing European diversity in lifelong learning. The many perspectives of the Valuation of Prior Learning in the European workplace. Nijmegen/Vught/Amsterdam, HAN/EC-VPL/HvA. Bildungswissenschaften Bedingungen werden im Seminar mitgeteilt. Universität Duisburg-Essen WS 2010/11 N N