Educación basada en competencias: hacia una pedagogía sin dicotomías

This paper proposes an examination of the conception of "competence" from a perspective that could be considered a justification for competency-based education. This work will address three main topics. First, it offers a description of linguistic competence as an explanatory paradigm of the notion of competence. Second, three different approaches towards competency-based education are examined, starting with a comparison with objective-based pedagogy, then from a historical perspective and finally from a conceptual approach, taking into account the need for a Pedagogy "without dichotomies". F...