Critical review of the text "Training for life: from competences to building understanding"

Abstract

The book chapter on which this critical review is based is related to an educational theme that is relevant to today's world, in which the act of educating is developed by the author Julio César Arboleda. This will present the fundamental ideas that make up the text, raising my point of view in front of some
of them; finally, I will present some personal ideas raised with respect to this topic.

Before delving into the structural question of the text, Arboleda presents a differentiation between what is a training by competencies and a formation by understandings, to finally arrive at the implications that entails a formation for life based on a constructive understanding. In this order of ideas, a competency-based training ensures the increase of the levels of profitability and productivity within the utilitarian dynamics (a term that initially alluded to the well-being of human beings, which unfortunately has been distorted due to the dynamics of the market, linked to the construction and consolidation of a consumerist, capitalist and increasingly cold society). The training under this construct has very little relationship and interest with educating for the development of the person as a human being, their training in ethical values ​​and attitudes for work.