Can “cooperative attitude” be built in participants of an education system with a focus on competencies?

Abstract

When people participate in training processes they carry certain attitudes or individualistic practices that have been fostered by the educational system and the type of society in which we live. This attitude is reflected not only in our personal training processes but also in dynamics, approaches and forms of social relationships we establish, in the family, community or labor. Society today, with all its trading system, has pushed us to compete among us, justified in the pursuit of ever higher goals. This model is also present in educational contexts: competitiveness is encouraged both by families who expect school success and by the school itself or community where time working is the most spent individually. This article subjects to critical review the Salvadoran education system with a focus on competencies, but also proposes that the learning processes transcend the school walls and that horizontal relationships between participants are established through the daily practice of “ genuine cooperation “, whose paradigm becomes a lifestyle.