La formación en competencias para el programa de Trabajo Social en la Universidad de la Guajira: un camino abierto a la diversidad y la educación

The objective of this study is to characterize the training process of the Social Work program at the University of La Guajira from a competency-based training approach, for which the theoretical guidelines are deepened, where training by generic and specific competences in higher education Responds to the student's skills and productive life and according to the needs of a given context and enriched by their cultural conditions. The methodology is ethnographic, with a design based on the triangulation of information. The results indicate that a new approach is required in the training of competences in the social work program, where the curricular processes are articulated research and the organization of the academic activities so that it is evidenced in better results in the tests knowledge and in the quality Of the University of La Guajira. The above points to the need to intervene and investigate the factors associated with training by the competences of students, since the training process must be in accordance with the disciplinary, investigative, professional, social and labor requirements and, of course, The sociocultural context, because it is where the social imaginaries and practices in everyday life occur.