Dilema Moral Para El Desarrollo De Competencias Éticas en Los Estudios De Ingeniería Industrial. Aplicación a La Ingeniería Mecánica

Teaching for a Better World. Sustainability and Sustainable Development Goals in the Construction of a Change-Maker University

“…Today, students should be at the center of the teaching and learning process. If previously, university teaching was focused on content development, now the focus is on students [51][52][53]. For example, in the European context, the teaching load is measured in terms of the workload of the student, including face-to-face activities (magisterial lessons, laboratories, computer classes) and personal workload (study, time for activities, and so on) [51,54].…”

“…One of the aspects that should be reflected upon is about the competences that should be developed in the learning-teaching process. By competence, we mean the integration of knowledge, skills and attitudes to a particular situation [51,52]. Learning outcomes at different stages of education refer to competences [16,57,58].…”

What Do University Students Know about Sustainable Development Goals? A Realistic Approach to the Reception of this UN Program Amongst the Youth Population

“…Competences can be defined as integration of knowledge, skills, and attitudes that can be applied in a specific context [17,18,36]. Competences development should be the basis of educational curricula, including at the university level [20,22,36,42].…”

“…On the one hand, we need professionals who have knowledge of their specialty, but on the other hand, we need students who know how to position themselves in a globalized and changing world [33]. Students should develop competences such as critical thinking, narrative imagination, and agency, the bases of capability approach [33], or others such as ethical reasoning, the ability to discern the consequences of their actions [9,10,17].…”

“…Focusing on teaching, university students develop competences in their training. The term "competence" can be defined as the integration of knowledge, skills, and attitudes that can be applied in a specific context [17,18]. University education can be oriented towards the professional training of students (specific competences) or it can train students in an integrated way by developing specific competences and transversal competences [19][20][21][22].…”