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Adults in the “new” competence regime – Acquiring “the sense of the game”
Author(s) -
Tønseth Christin
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
new horizons in adult education and human resource development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1939-4225
DOI - 10.1002/nha3.20119
Subject(s) - competence (human resources) , lifelong learning , politics , psychology , adult education , social psychology , adult learning , pedagogy , sociology , political science , law
Abstract How can political intentions concerning adult learning be realized when adults seem to have intentions and outcomes that go in many directions? This paper highlights some tensions and discrepancies between adult education policy goals, referred to as promoters for lifelong learning, and adults’ outcomes from participation in learning. While some adults experience a mismatch between their own expressed outcomes and some of the political intentions of lifelong learning, others have great accordance between their outcomes and the education policy goals and intentions. The results of this study highlight Bourdieu's expression: “the sense of the game” – (Bourdieu 1990) as a key competence in order to soften certain tensions and thereby recruit more adults into learning and optimize the political achievement goal.