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Lifelong learning and Competencies

15 January, 2016 - 09:26
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There are three broad types of competencies to be acquired through lifelong learning process:

1. Communicative competencies: the ability to speak, listen, write, negotiate, and mediate.

2. Analytical competencies: the ability to operate within systems of formal logic, to create models, and to display a sociological imagination.

3. Personal competencies - the ability to display “emotional balance,” to accept diversity, to tolerate.