Educación basada en competencias: Hacia una pedagogía sin dicotomías

Abstract

This paper proposes an examination of the conception of "competence" from a perspective that could be considered a justification for competency-based education. This work will address three main topics. First, it offers a description of linguistic competence as an explanatory paradigm of the notion of competence. Second, three different approaches towards competency-based education are examined, starting with a comparison with objective-based pedagogy, then from a historical perspective and finally from a conceptual approach, taking into account the need for a Pedagogy "without dichotomies". Finally, several views about competence in education will be examined in order to highlight the conception as "understanding the situation", in an attempt to discuss their senses and scope, based on the conceptual framework derived from the examination of linguistic competence.