La formación en competencias: un estudio sobre la gubernamentalidad neoliberal en la política educativa colombiana

Abstract

The skills education has appeared as the technical and neutral response to the educational crisis manifested in the gap between the school and the demands of the business world. In this work we look at the way in which this understanding of educational practice is historically constituted through the discourse of educational policy, as well as its effects of power on subjectivity to produce individuals based on competence and management as a mode of existence, within the framework of a governmental reason that formalizes the business model in market societies as a whole. To this end, we describe the conditions of knowledge and power that allowed the construction of education as an economic force since the second half of the twentieth century and the shifts that have led to lead to competency training as a technology of governance of the school population, articulated to the logic of neoliberal governmental rationality, which produces «entrepreneur of himself