Abstract

DIAZ BARRIGA, Ángel. El enfoque de competencias en la educación: ¿Una alternativa o un disfraz de cambio?. Perfiles educativos [online]. 2006, vol.28, n.111, pp.7-36. ISSN 0185-2698.

An important and distinctive feature of the educational reforms is the "innovation" matter, which, although it means a real challenge, to be executed uses to be accompanied by a kind of compulsivity that hinders its strenghtening and its conceptual revision. This article is based on a hypothesis: ¿does the competence in education approach really mean an innovation or does it just appear like a real change? The purpose is to reach a conceptual articulation of this word able to characterize the defining features of competence in education and, from a more paedagogical point of view, to situate precisely its applications within the field of curriculum.

Keywords : Competence; Innovation in education; Curriculum; Didactics.