Titlebook: Challenging the ‘European Area of Lifelong Learning‘; A Critical Response George K. Zarifis,Maria N. Gravani Book 2014 Springer Science+Bus

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The Skills: A Chimera of Modern European Adult Education by introducing basic skills as the main mechanism. Further on, their value-free and context-free nature is reflected. The concept of competencies was also critically discussed, for being perceived as kind of . of modern European policy in adult education. The developments in the European policy in

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‘New Basic Skills’, Nonbasic Skills, Knowledge Practices and Judgement: Tensions Between the Needs ozens, or always a-contextually generic. The English conception of ‘skill’ promotes this inappropriate emphasis, which is also an economic and employment-led perspective, fuelled by neo-liberal hegemony. Domination of the English language, and hence prevalence of the English term ‘skill’, across the