This week I borrowed a book of Jonathan Winterton edited by John Raven and John Stephenson, called ‘Competence in the Learning Society’, published in 2001 by Lang, in the ‘Studies in the Postmodern Theory of Education’, with contributions of George O. Klemp, Donald Schön, Richard E. Boyatzis, and David C. McClelland and many others. The book comprises 28 chapters. As far as I can see, there are 76 citations to the book in Publish or Perish. The conclusion at the end of the book may be a bit simple. It blames universities, university management, polititians and public servants for not having established a competent society. One may agree with this, but in my opinion and experience the ‘technology’ of competence modelling and measurement is by no means easy.
