On competences and values: from the desire to educate to educating the desire of being

Abstract

The competence discourse issued by the Colombian Ministry of National Education defines an ontological duty, a set of logics for the education of subjectivity. Some interesting elements result from this analysis. The first level, or denotative level, manages a management or business cultural code. This code is closely related to the second level or connotative level linked to certain values translated, as Saussure says, into an ideology or myth: the myth of rational market in this case. This is the performing work of discourse, that language game that entails the promise of future success and happiness.

Keywords:

• hegemonic discourse
• education
• competences
• values
• knowledge
• subjectivities
• language
• discourses
• pedagogic discourse
• desire
• labour market

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Roberto Sancho Larrañaga

Roberto Sancho Larrañaga is the lecturer and researcher of Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga (Colombia). Doctor of History, Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain); he did his master degree in History from Universidad Industrial de Santander (Colombia) and Bachelor of Philosophy and Humanities, Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain). He is the author of Encricijada de la Violencia Politica Armanda en la Segunda Mitad del Siglo XX en Colombia y Espana: ELN y ETA [Crossroad of Armed Political Violence in Colombia and Spain in the Second Half of the 20th Century: ELN and ETA]. (2008 – Doctoral Thesis); and Guerrilla y Terrorism en Colombia y Espana: ELN y ETA [Guerrillas and Terrorism in Colombia and Spaon: ELN and ETA (2003); and Coordinator of the Research Line ‘Memory, Representations and Institutionality’ within the research team ‘Transdisciplinary Studies, Culture and Politics’.