TY - JOUR

T1 - Propósitos humanísticos y utilitarios de la educación superior en el contexto del enfoque de competencia: presentación del problema

AU - Gilyazova, Olga S.

AU - Zamoshchansky, Ivan I.

AU - Zamoshchanskaya, Anna N.

PY - 2022

Y1 - 2022

N2 - The purpose of this article is to examine the tension that exists between the main purposes of higher education, humanistic and utilitarian, through the competency-based approach. The main conclusions of the theoretical study, based on structural-functional and system-genetic approaches, are that this tension can be removed through introducing universal competences (the Russian alternative to key competences, soft skills), that due to their specificity, they can perform utilitarian, humanistic, integrating and balancing functions of learning. Also, upbringing and self-upbringing (intellectual, value-based and existential development, respectively) in the universalizing matrix of culture reproduction; they can transfer features of classical university education (the humanistic focus and universalism) into a specialized institute education, facilitating their convergence. However, the competence approach-based perspective of two central purposes of education, while overcoming the artificial dichotomy between them, still remains instrumental rather than autotelic.

AB - The purpose of this article is to examine the tension that exists between the main purposes of higher education, humanistic and utilitarian, through the competency-based approach. The main conclusions of the theoretical study, based on structural-functional and system-genetic approaches, are that this tension can be removed through introducing universal competences (the Russian alternative to key competences, soft skills), that due to their specificity, they can perform utilitarian, humanistic, integrating and balancing functions of learning. Also, upbringing and self-upbringing (intellectual, value-based and existential development, respectively) in the universalizing matrix of culture reproduction; they can transfer features of classical university education (the humanistic focus and universalism) into a specialized institute education, facilitating their convergence. However, the competence approach-based perspective of two central purposes of education, while overcoming the artificial dichotomy between them, still remains instrumental rather than autotelic.

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U2 - 10.17162/au.v12i4.1242

DO - 10.17162/au.v12i4.1242

M3 - Article

VL - 12

SP - 197

EP - 219

JO - Apuntes Universitarios

JF - Apuntes Universitarios

SN - 2225-7136

IS - 4

ER -