Publisher's Synopsis
Competence is a term which is making its entrance in the university. How might it be understood at this level? This book provides a critique of the notion of competence as wholly inadequate for higher eduction.;In the older definition - one of academic competence - notions of disciplines, objectivity and truth have been central. In the new version, competence is given an operational twist and is marked out by know-how, competence and skills. In this operationalism, the key question is not "What do students understand?" but "What can students do?";This book develops an alternative view, suggesting that, for our universities, a third and heretical conception of human being is worth considering. Our curricula might, instead, offer an education for life.
