Description
Competency-based learning
Book summary
This work offers a clear and rigorous guide to understanding and applying the competency-based approach in the educational field. Far from the false dichotomy between content and competencies, the authors explain how the former is the essential vehicle for achieving the latter, thus elevating the goal of learning. The reader will find a deep analysis that redefines the meaning of rote learning and integrates it into a methodology that seeks to form students who are more capable, critical, and prepared for real-world challenges. An essential resource for teachers and pedagogical professionals looking to update their educational practice.
What is it about?
The book addresses the implementation of competency-based learning from an integrative perspective. The authors dismantle the myth that this model implies abandoning traditional content. On the contrary, they argue that competencies represent a higher-level educational goal, which is achieved precisely through the mastery of content. The work explores how to give new meaning to content learning, including rote learning, so that it is not an end in itself, but a tool for developing complex capabilities. Pedagogical strategies, active methodologies, and competency assessment are analyzed, offering a theoretical-practical framework for transforming teaching.
Main topics
- Integration of content and competencies in the educational curriculum.
- Revision of rote learning and its role in competency development.
- Active methodologies for competency-based teaching.
- Design of learning situations and competency assessment.
- Teacher training and educational paradigm shift.
Who is it recommended for?
This book is aimed at teachers of all educational stages, pedagogy and education students, school management teams, educational advisors, and any professional interested in pedagogical innovation and improving the quality of teaching. It is especially useful for those seeking to fully understand the meaning of competency-based learning and wishing to apply it in a well-founded manner in their daily practice.
What this book contributes
- Clarifies the relationship between content and competencies, overcoming false debates.
- Provides an updated and rigorous theoretical framework on the competency-based approach.
- Offers practical tools and criteria for designing and evaluating learning situations.
- Helps rethink the role of the teacher and the student in the teaching-learning process.
- Facilitates professional development to face the challenges of contemporary education.
- Technical specifications
Technical specifications
- Author: VALLE, JAVIER M.; MANSO, JESUS; PIÑANA, EL
- Publisher: Khaf (Edelvives)
- Language: Spanish
- Subject: EDUCATION PEDAGOGY
- Collection: EXPRESIONES
- Binding: Paperback
- Publication date: September 2024
- Number of pages: 375
- Weight: 630 g
Editorial review
This is a timely and necessary work in the current educational landscape, where the debate on competencies often generates confusion. The authors, with a solid theoretical foundation, manage to clear up doubts and offer a coherent and applicable vision. Its practical approach and defense of an integrative model, which does not renounce content but rather revalues it, make it a resource of great value for any educator who wishes to deepen their pedagogical work with updated criteria.