Identification of basic competences on secondary education

Abstract

It seems obvious that compulsory schooling cannot give all individuals all the necessary subjects for living in the scientific, technological and social new world. This research faces the question about what kind of answer the school must give concerning knowledge and their application to daily life. This training of individuals includes the competence of getting into the labour market. The article tries to answer to these matters by analysing the selection of the curricula that the school makes in order to facilitate to the young generation the transition to daily life. The research uses different information sources, not only the school, which nowadays is not even the most important source, and it is through the different social agents that the problem of having to select contents and skills is analysed, taking into account which ones of them are the most important and necessary not only to succeed in school but to get ready to enter the daily life. The solution has to consider pedagogical reasons but also political ones, and to identify which kind of basic competences must be trained during compulsory schooling and to set priorities.