Competence model, new forms of professionalities and adult education
The article analyses the issues at stake in the substitution of the competence model for the qualification model in France. It highlights the effects of the ‘battle of skills’ on the marginalization of collective regulation mechanisms; analyses how a new, more individualized wage relationship is emerging; traces the dimensions and contours of the new professional identities (professionalities) required by the model in question while questioning the role of adult education in the process of building skills.