Competency-Based Training in Community Work

Abstract

Nowadays, new social problems take place in sectors that fall in the space of vulnerability in an unexpected way and can become permanent situations. We consider that active answers from the social professions should be articulated by contrasting individual rights and social justice, competitiveness and equality, and immediacy and sustainability. Therefore, we consider it pertinent to provide students at higher education with the abilities to articulate knowledge, to reflect and systematize their professional experience. It is also necessary that they develop ethical attitudes that allow them to gain an intuitive knowledge from the professional point of view, in relation to the implication, responsibility and effects of their professional action. The main contribution of our proposal focuses on encouraging the capacity to lead processes of community development by strengthening values that are not included in the stages of economic-financial growth, but that they get great relevance in situations of crisis.