During the last decade, the global society observed fundamental changes in the human conditions that influenced the way in which individuals,
organizations, and the nation-states reformulated the mode of development by deconstructing the traditional boundaries of learning and production.
Challenged by the postmodern/postindustrial/postcolonial changes, the members of ASEM Lifelong Learning University Hub agreed on the necessity to
re-think the nature of learning and competence.

It goes beyond the conventional attitudes on the concept of lifelong learning, learning systems, and human competences. ‘Learning society’ has been discussed as a fundamental new platform upon which learning becomes an essential component to produce new social orders in that the appropriate
competences towards successful life are discussed as a key factor. Now, human learning and competence became the key attribute of a social system.

This book intended to encourage the discussion about the nature of human competences from a perspective of learning society as a new platform of
social evolution. We believed that new core competences that require individual learner the analytic, dialogic, cultural, and global as well as multicultural capacity will be analyzed in the context of a learning society with diverse approaches and efforts in a con-jointed context of Asia-Europe joint research connections.

Introduction(SoongHee Han)

1 Competence, Employability, and New Social Relations of Work and Learning(SoongHee Han)
2 Latent Competencies: Learning from Literacy about the Limits of Performance(Ralf St.Clair)
3 Social Cultural Competency as a Concept of Integrative Core Competences in the Context of Life Wide Learning in Latvia(Andra Fernate and Irina Maslo)
4 Core Competencies, Lifelong Learning, and Multiple Learner Identities(Carol E. Kasworm)
5 Beliefs, Positionings and the Development of Analytical Competences: A small-scale Study in 14 Years Old Students’Beliefs and Positioning in School Mathematics(Lena Lindenskov, Vibeke Hetmar and Bent B. Andresen)
6 Searching for a Competence-based Approach to School Curriculum: Korean Efforts and Remaining Issues(Won-Pyo Hong and Kwang-Woo Lee)
7 Developing and Preparing Globally Competent Educational Leaders(Anthony N. Normore and Jeffrey S. Brooks)
8 Towards a Learning Organization: The Role of Core Competencies as an Internal Factor for Transformation(Vaiva Zuzevičiūtė and Jūratė Paulauskaitė)
9 Global Economic-demographic Challenges: Role of Institutions of Higher Learning towards Competent and Productive Workforce(Patcharawalai Wongboonsin and Kua Wongboonsin)
10 Meanings constructed out of Students’ Participation in the Classroom Practice: A Constitutive Part of Academic Competence Development(Minseong Kim, Minjeong Park and Soonkyoung Youn)

About the Editor
List of Contributors
Index