Competency-based university training in the career of Basic Educacion at UPSE

Abstract

The main objective of this essay is to share with the scientific community, reflections and experiences of research results on the controversial issue of competency in the field of higher education in the XXI century, where the need for a new process arises in education, based on the principles of excellence, quality and relevance, with a special feature to integrate education into production and service processes, therefore, the need to organize and implement new ways of learning, teaching and organizing. In this paper the contents of the curricula that should contribute to the formation of professional skills are explained from a theoretical perspective, because they promote knowledge, skills, values and attitudes that constitute the field of knowledge, the know-how, and the know-how-to-be. All these approaches have raised the questions to be answered in this scientific report: What is meant by competency? How is it achieved?, What must the university do in order to favor its achievement ? Are there any methodological tips for the development of professional profiles?.