LIFETIME LEARNING
KEY COMPETENCES
Keywords:
lifetime learning, competence, education reform, social partnership, key competenceAbstract
The paper undertakes the analytical and theoretical approach of the concepts of lifetime learning, observed in the light of market demand, mobility and flexibility of the employed. According to the analyses conducted in the market, the employers and leaders look for the employees who will continuously work on their skills, successfully communicate and work on their own. The new economy needs those individuals who possess a wide range of skills and competences on a proficiency level, such as: critical standpoints, problem solving, team work and decision making, since the world in which a man lives today is sophisticated and polysemous. In the given context, the paper also sums up interpretations and descriptions of competences, especially of the key ones representing a reversible platform which is to provide aid to the individual so as to be able to respond to the shifting work conditions. The paper is based on the analyses and research conducted in the EU, as well as on the example of a single research of key competences conducted in Serbia.
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