Integral Formation and Competencies

In this fourth edition, the Competency Based Approach from a Socioformation Perspective is consolidated. It is a new approach which seeks to change traditional, educative practices, centered in contents into a process of integral education, according to the challenges of building and living in knowledge society. In this sense, the Ethical Project of Life, collaboration, entrepreneurship and competences are emphasized to face the contextual challenges, by taking the methodology of...
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In this fourth edition, the Competency Based Approach from a Socioformation Perspective is consolidated. It is a new approach which seeks to change traditional, educative practices, centered in contents into a process of integral education, according to the challenges of building and living in knowledge society. In this sense, the Ethical Project of Life, collaboration, entrepreneurship and competences are emphasized to face the contextual challenges, by taking the methodology of formative projects and the evaluation with learning maps as a base.This fourth edition has many improvements and complements regarding previous editions. It is the product of multiple and different suggestions or comments given by some readers.Next, there is a summary about these improvements:1.- The Decalogue with the main principles of Socioformation in education and Management of the Human talent is described. This helps to evaluate the teaching practice and to implement continuous actions of improvement.2.- A concrete guide, to identify and to write down the competences emerged from the problems on the context, is given with its components: criteria and evidence. This is illustrated with a variety of examples which facilitate all, the processes of curriculum design and the production of courses under this approach. In this way, there is a tendency for integral performance, opposite to traditional approaches of competences which are centered on the fragmentation of performance through tasks and skills.3.- Ten essential actions to perform and to evaluate the competences, from the socioformation approach with suggestions of learning strategies, are exposed. This is a very important help for the production of didactic sequences, as it is for the classes, workshops, seminars, and general courses.4. A new form to design plans and programs of study is described. This is with the objective of achieving a more agile, flexible and focused process in its application with the students. The author has always defended an approach of a more centered curriculum in learning activities and less in philosophical and theoretical aspects.5.- Answers to frequent questions are given in the implementation of the methodology of formative projects.