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Appel à contribution pour un futur numéro de la revue RELA (European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults).The emergence of the now almost hegemonic agenda of lifelong learning has been informed historically by very different ideas and interests, primarily related to adult and continuing education and the labor market. Where classical adult education debates have historically often been driven by cultural and political concerns, the current lifelong learning agenda has been strongly influenced by labor market needs and interests. These labor market concerns are quite distinct and characteristically articulate new ideas for education and learning in response to social and economic challenges. The European Union and the OECD express a common concern about the continuation of the competitiveness of the developed countries in a changing global context. Against this backdrop, the investment in the competences that enable the individual learner and worker to be flexible and mobile and re-­‐skill throughout life has become a prevailing aspect of the new lifelong learning discourse. But also the prominence of the adult as a consumer, fulfilling his or her own educational needs, has given direction to a renewed understanding of competence in policies and practices of lifelong learning. (...)Lire la suite de l'appel : Call_for_papers_Competence_regimeSubmission deadline: November 15, 2012.&#160;