Competencias genéricas y formación profesional: un análisis desde la docencia universitaria

Abstract

In this paper we shall approach the issue of humanistic education and social commitment of professionals. This constitutes, for the universities of today, a reason to be both occupied and preoccupied.
For that purpose, we will discuss the overcoming of the simple approach on professional skills, by which those skills are considered isolated qualities, mainly of a cognitive nature, and determining of professional success in specific professional scenarios. This approach will be replaced by a new personal and dynamic approach that is focused not on the before mentioned isolated qualities, but on the performance of the professional that, as a person, builds, acts and incorporates motivational and cognitive qualities, in order to perform efficiently, no matter where he or she may have to perform.
In this way, the attention is more and more focused on the student as a person that it is constructed during the professional learning process. This demands understanding the necessary connection between general and specific skills throughout the process of college professional training.
In this sense, we will present reflections, by a group of teachers and college graduates from Bolivia and Cuba, on the importance of general skills and their performance in a college context