Philosophical reflection of the competence approach in education

Abstract

The chapter uncovers basic specification of the Europe-wide popular competence approach in education and reveals its foundation, possibilities of its meaningful use and its immanent dangers.

Keywords

• education
• competence
• "doing"
• performance
• thinking
• ethics education
• morality
• correctness
• legality
• inquiry
• instrument
• utilization
• Gestell