El Significado De Los Valores En Las Competencias Individuales Y Colectivas

The movement of education and training based on competences, after three decades of worldwide expansion, has practically become a strategic instrument of educative and labor policy for economic competitiveness of organizations, productive sectors, countries and regions. In the same trend, while emphasis is made on the importance of practical knowledge and skills —inherent to personal know how (competencies) related to tasks, roles or functions of particular or general interest—, values usually pass unnoticed or remain hidden. The main purpose of this article is to enhance the meaning of values concerning individual and collective competencies. For such a purpose, on the basis of an ample conceptual framework, from which different analysis perspectives were obtained and integrated, a theoretical research was accomplished. Evidences, arguments and conclusions sustain the thesis that the culture of competence-based education and training has largely neglected or omitted the component of values, impoverishing the sense and role of competencies themselves, from an ample scope.