The importance of comprehensive professional training. Reflective, critical, innovative and productive human beings for the XXI Century

Abstract

The present article pretends to describe the integral professional formation from its two fundamental axes: the formation of the human person and the formation of competences for the occupational performance. It assumes a deductive structure which starts from the historical and philosophical foundations of integral education and liberal education, to move through the characterization that OIT / CINTERFOR makes of integral professional training in Latin America and the Caribbean, and culminate with a synthesis of the integral professional training in the vital and professional experiences of the group of the SENA instructors participating in this edition.