Generic Teaching Competences in Education Degree Programs: The Vision of the University Faculty

Abstract

The competence approach in higher education, promoted through the process of European convergence, has acquired great importance and relevance in current teacher training processes. This work aims to identify the generic teaching competences that are being implemented in university classrooms and their degree of development, analyzing the existing differences according to the characteristics of university professors. To achieve the proposed objective, 351 Spanish university professors were given a questionnaire as a quantitative technique for collecting data. The main results of the study reveal that the development of most generic teaching competences was being promoted in the classroom. However, those competences related to management and the social context were the least developed. It is worth highlighting the continuing education of university professors was a determining factor in the promotion of said competences.