Competencias Socioemocionales. Una Reflexión Necesaria ante la Complejidad del Contexto Actual

This article is the result of a research for an academic degree. The authors refer, from a constructivist and socio-critical position, to the need to retake the formation of knowledge and professional capacities together with the accompaniment of social and emotional skills (attitudinal component) in the academic curricula. It suggests complementing the contents of university curricula with the development of activities that enhance social and emotional competencies, considering them as mediators of the rest of the professional competencies. He argues that in order to coexist with others, an essential learning process is needed, from the conscious exercise of the existence of this otherness, to the incorporation of socioemotional competencies into the daily behavior of students. It is located internally in the line of Evaluative Research and Education of the Social Communication career of the Salesian Polytechnic University of Ecuador.